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.
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!
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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/)
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/)
Shadows and Knives
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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.)
Manly
"As I get older, I find that I care more and more about being a good man and less and less about career stuff. I think a lot of it is just a product of age. But the fact that Iām the last survivor of the family I grew up in plays a significant part. When my mom passed away last October, the only guide for how I behaved was asking myself how my parents would want me to deal with it..." -- Jonah Goldberg, ["In Defense of Manly Tears," Aug 4, 2023](https://thedispatch.activehosted.com/index.php?action=social&chash=7fb8ceb3bd59c7956b1df66729296a4c.1661&nosocial=1) š¬