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  • If I were to open a pub, perhaps it would be "The Lamb & Puppy."

    Sleeping mini goldendoodle dog on a blue couch with a toy lamb in its mouth🐶


  • All In or All Out

    There is little excuse for pretending eloquence about the meaning of the Resurrection while holding reservations about whether the event really happened. The assertion that Jesus was raised from the dead cannot at the same time be theologically true and historically false.

    Andrew Christiansen, paraphrasing Carl Braaten - Covenant blog


  • Writers Who've Stuck with Me (or With Whom I've Stuck)
    an ongoing list
    P.G. Wodehouse • G.K. Chesterton • Dorothy L. Sayers • C.S. Lewis • Frederick Buechner • Kathleen Norris • Alan Jacobs • Terry Teachout • David French • Evelyn Underhill • Garrison Keillor, editor (for his Good Poems collections) • Naomi Shihab Nye • T.S. Eliot • Roger Scruton • John Donne • John Milton • Abraham Lincoln • Anthony Trollope • Jane Kenyon • John McPhee • David Brooks • Li-Young Lee • Tom Stoppard • Michael Chabon • Laurie Colwin • The author of the Johannine epistles • The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews • Witold Rybczynski • Angelo Pellegrini • Calvin Trillin (the "Tummy Trilogy" and beyond) • William Carlos Williams • Christopher Alexander, et al. (A Pattern Language) • Anne Lamott • Yuval Levin • Philip Yancey • Colum McCann • Hilary Mantel • William deBuys • Alex Harris, photographer • Victoria Goddard • Iris Murdoch • Virginia Woolf • Hampton Sides • Louis Menand • Sophocles • Charles Dickens • Jane Austen • Wendell Berrly • John Buchan • Dorianne Laux • Charles Portis • Annie Dillard 📘
  • Public Art
    "Tree Sleeves" on Kneeling Bois d'arc, Tietze Park, Dallas, Texas, USA bright blue, red, and pink chalk markings on the branches of a Texas bois d'arc tree in a Dallas park
  • Sorolla

    Really lovely paintings. “Spanish Light: Sorolla in American Collections” through January 7, 2024, Meadows Museum, SMU Campus, Dallas, Texas - Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Spanish, 1863–1923) 🎨

    Oil painting - seashore with a small boat with a billowing sail and small naked children playing in the waves
  • TV Rec
    Megan and I are loving "This Farming Life," on Britbox. City folk have no idea what it's like to be a farmer or rancher. Highly recommended. 📺
  • Happy, happy Spurs days!

    (A feeling Spurs fans are not overly familiar with.)

    UPDATE: 3 straight losses + major injuries and suspensions = Unhappy Spurs days. Ah, well.

    Symbol of English football club, Tottenham Hotspur: a silhouette of a navy blue cockerel (young rooster) standing on a soccer ball ⚽️
  • Ghosts - Jen Rose Yokel
    Quick now, come now
to where the veil grows thin,
where the border between 
real and more real—so real
we can't bear it—shimmers
like ghosts going silently
into moonlit mist, to 
enfolding fog, a cloud
of silvered saints hovering
over the waters.

  • 23 Oct 2023, 07:29
    Sunrise with orangey-pink wispy clouds taken in a complex of early 1900s industrial buildings in Dallas, Texas USA on October 21, 2023
  • Conundrum

    Undecided.


  • Rare
    The terse explanation she'd given for her depression was a "bad breakup." Sam felt it had to be more than that, but out of respect for her, he did not push her to elaborate. They had the rare kind of friendship that allowed for a great deal of privacy within it. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
  • 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


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