mumby road
  • Duane Thomas
    RIP, Duane Thomas, one of the greatest runners in Cowboys history. When an interviewer referred to the Superbowl as "the ultimate game," Thomas' never-to-be-forgotten response was, "If it's the ultimate, why are they playing it again next year?"
    Dallas Cowboys running back Duane Thomas in the 1970s.

  • Leah Bayans:

    When I first sat with Wendell [Berry] to talk about educating farmers as farmers, he started by turning to the idea of love—in the fullness of the term, not sentimentalized but fully rounded, with the joyful and the difficult joined through membership in a place and with its people.

    He then asked a question that I try to answer every day: what works does this love propose?

    Start with love, then see what works that love proposes. (H/T: @ayjay)

  • from Kottke:
    Public Work is an image search engine that boasts 100,000 “copyright-free” images from institutions like the NYPL, the Met, etc. It’s fast with a relatively simple interface and uses AI to auto-categorize and suggest possibly related images (both visually and content-wise). And it’s fun to just visually click around on related images. On the downside, their sourcing and attribution isn’t great — especially when compared to something like Flickr Commons.
  • GOAT
  • C'est Vrai
    Capers are white people's fish sauce. Briny and salty and umamiful. -- my daughter
  • Roses | P.S. Krøyer, 1893

    Oil painting of a bush of white roses in the foreground and a 19th century woman wearing white and reading in the rose garden in the background

    Yes, please. Some of that.

  • Which Vision: Sunrise or Carnage?
    David Brooks, quoting Michael Strain
    A Trump win would play into the narrative of Americans as helpless victims. The economics of grievance is ineffective, counterproductive, and corrosive, eroding the foundations of prosperity. Messages matter. Tell people that the system is rigged, and they will aspire to less. Champion personal responsibility, and they will lift their aspirations. Promoting an optimistic vision of economic life can increase risk tolerance, ambition, effort, and dynamism.
  • Moo, Baa, Cluck, Oink
    The late, great Kinky Friedman:
    I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are.
  • Hate the Sinner, Hate the Sin /
    David Frum, via Nick Cataggio:
    Nobody seems to have language to say: We abhor, reject, repudiate, and punish all political violence, even as we maintain that Trump remains himself a promoter of such violence, a subverter of American institutions, and the very opposite of everything decent and patriotic in American life.
  • Una Escaramuza - Mothered by Aunts and Horses

    Charra en un caballo. Photo credit: Constance Jaeggi

    Photo: Constance Jaeggi (a tip of the Hatlo Hat to @ayjay)
  • Kräuterbuch - “Book of Herbs” | Johannes Hartlieb - 1462 1462 painting of a hosta plant

    Hosta [really?!] 🌱

  • Listening to Lucinda (and cicadas)
    Black & white photo of a dog looking up at something outside of the image frame.
  • If Trump ever used words to render reality, I never heard it.*

    Heather Cox Richardson:

    *Mark Edmonson, Harpers, January 2023

  • At the parade

  • Be there or be square
    Poster for a Rodeo

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