mumby road
  • Two by David Brooks
    Over the Trump years, we’ve learned how easy it is to anesthetize one’s moral circuits... You start by lying about yourself, and pretty soon you’re lying to yourself. Sept 14, 2023

    [Biden] has his faults ... but I’ve always thought: Give me a leader who identifies with those who feel looked down upon. Give me a leader whose moral compass generally sends him in the right direction. Oct 6, 2023

  • Supermoon setting. 30 Sept 2023

  • A New Thing

    Given that I’d never, ever, heard the words (or name) “Ange Postecoglou” until last June, those syllables currently take up an inordinate amount of my brain space. (Come on you Spurs!) ⚽


  • FOTB
    A few days late, but having happy Father-of-the-Bride memories from 1-year-plus-a-few-days ago. It's a great thing to like your sons-in-law. Nay & Cait. Bride and Groom in Brooklyn sharing a 'swoony' kiss
  • Leaves

    “Artistic Leaf-Raking” by land artist Nikola Faller, via Kottke


  • Archie & Red Mike
    This day begins with a 2-dog walk. 07:15, 09.23.2023, Dallas, TX, USA 📷
  • South Fork

    The road goes on forever and the party never ends. – Robert Earl Keen, Jr.

    Rural highway looking into the sun with billowy clouds and mountains in the distance. Photo taken in Colorado's San Luis Valley.
  • Nantucket
    Sky, beach dunes, and four distant figures on the beach, Nantucket, MA, USA
  • Mac's Shack, Wellfleet, MA
    Seafood restaurant on Cape Cod with a giant lobster, boat, and lobsterman sculpture on the rood of the building.
  • More Ryder's Cove

    Edges of tropical storm at sunset. (No filters.)

    Orangey and blue clouds over a Cape Code inlet at sunset.Pink clouds and deep blue sky over a Cape Code inlet at sunset.Orangey and blue clouds over a Cape Code inlet at sunset.


  • Ryder's Cove at sunset.

    Cape Cod sunset showing subtle light blue and peach clouds with American flag on a flag poleCape Cod sunset over a cove with subtle pink and blue skies.Cape Cod sunset over a cove with subtle pink and blue skies.


  • Mike and Pete walk into a bar ...
    Man with long hair and beard wearing a black baseball cap and holding his Basenji dog Cute alt= alt=
  • Not the same state

    This goes a long way to explain why it’s so much harder to live in Texas than it was 25 years ago: Why Is a Midland Billionaire Spending So Heavily to Support Ken Paxton?


  • Precious

    My true love and our first-born (at Bemelmans Bar in the Carlyle, NYC – also precious in its own way!) 📷 Mother and grown daughter with their heads together in a golden-glowed NY bar


  • Blue
    Four deep blue bottles of different intensities, sizes, and shapes on a white windowsill with the outdoors in the background.
  • one year

    My mom died a year ago today, three months short of her 99th birthday. She was a time-traveler. Her death is still difficult to get my head around. She was a vibrant, fun, and intelligent woman, and I miss her a lot, even though she was in my life for a long time. Mom and Dad in their prime:

    An elegant mature man and woman, husband and wife.

  • Andy Rooney?

    close-up of a mini goldendoodle dog who has huge eyebrows
  • fun fact
    "Texas natives are more likely to stick around their home state than people born in any other place in the U.S., according to a new analysis of Census data. ... Approximately 82% of people born in Texas still lived there in 2021 ..." [Texas Tribune, 30 Aug 2023.](https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/29/texas-native-born-stay/) No surprise there. Anecdotally, in 1976, seven of my high school classmates and I drove together to enroll at the same college in California. Seven out of eight of us returned to live in Texas after college or graduate school. Texas Flag
  • maybe
    Is this how judgment day will be? "... something that would have been terror, but for the joy, and joy, but for the terror..." -- C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
  • so far, so fun

    Two Three games isn't much to go on. But, at least for those games, Spurs look like a much improved team -- emphasis on team. This isn't just Sonny and Harry Kane. It's Sonny, Bissouma, Maddison, Udogie, Sarr, Romero, Lo Celso (based on pre-season), Perisic. So far, so fun! COYS!

    Cockerel on.a football: Logo of Tottenham Hotspur, English Premier League football (soccer) team ⚽
  • Lower Greenville, Saturday morning


  • So Good
    Of all the websites in all the internets, the Dust to Digital Instagram account may bring me the most joy. [Check it out - Sound on and up!](https://www.instagram.com/dusttodigital/)

    Logo for the 'Dust to Digital' music-preservation project; white faux hand lettering on a black background
  • Lora Webb Nichols, Photographer
    "Wilbur Scafe's Pack Trip: Ruth, 1932" by Lora Webb Nichols. From an extraordinary collection of photographs by Nichols, a photographer, businesswoman, and homemaker whose 24,000 photos open an intimate window into life on the Wyoming frontier in the early 20th century. [More -- many more -- here.](http://www.lorawebbnichols.org/)

    black and white photo of a young woman wearing a sweater vest and large cowboy hat in a wilderness setting. From the Lora Webb Nichols collection; titled 'Wilbur Scafe's Pack Trip: Ruth, 1932'


  • Shadows and Knives
    Tiled kitchen backsplash with interesting indeterminate shadows and a magnetic knife rack on the right, with cleavers and knives, including a red-handled cleaver, which is the only strong color in a mostly black, white, and gray image📷
  • Carne
    "The way to battle abstraction in our time is to embrace the material, the incarnation of our lives, the fleshy, complicated, touchable realities right around us in our neighborhoods, churches, friends and families. And this enfleshed, incarnational part of ... life and work deserves some extra attention now, at least for a little while... " [Tish Harrison Warren, My Hope for American Discourse](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/opinion/saying-goodbye-social-media-prayer.html)

    (I am not oblivious to the fact that I'm sharing this advice via the very medium that's causing a lot of the need for this advice.)

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