I Just Wanted To Be Sure Of You

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
“Pooh!” he whispered.
“Yes, Piglet?”
“Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. “I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

petting zoo at Rodeo Ranch Dallas, Texas

petting zoo at
Rodeo Ranch
Dallas, Texas

There’s A Brand New Dance

There’s a brand new dance but I don’t know its name
That people from bad homes do again and again
It’s big and it’s bland full of tension and fear
They do it over there but we don’t do it here
—-David Bowie, Fashion

Main Street Park Dallas, Texas

Main Street Park
Dallas, Texas

I Told Them the Truth

“I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn’t like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.”
― Frank Norris, McTeague

Recycled Books Denton, Texas

Recycled Books
Denton, Texas

Sleep When You Can

“Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

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I Kept My Tune

“So I went ahead and made me a guitar. I got me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, take me a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I got me some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised it up high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got me a tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.”
― Lightnin’ Hopkins

Denton, Texas

Denton, Texas

Old Frogs Command the Dark

“Come come! Come Out!
From bogs old frogs command the dark
and look…the stars”
― Kikaku, Japanese Haiku

Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

Advice From Experts

Here’s some simple advice:
Always be yourself,
Never take yourself too seriously.

And beware of advice from experts,
Pigs and members of Parliament.
—-Kermit the Frog

Denton, Texas (click to enlarge)

Denton, Texas
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Show’N Tell

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

Store Window Denton, Texas (click to enlarge)

Store Window
Denton, Texas
(click to enlarge)

Tabasco and Log Cabin

“I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime ‘associates,’ food, for me, has always been an adventure”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Dix Coney Island Denton, Texas (click to enlarge)

Dix Coney Island
Denton, Texas
(click to enlarge)

Dix Coney Island

Everyone Who Is Not Happy Must Be Shot

“Everyone who is not happy must be shot.”
― John le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl

Denton, Texas (click to enlarge)

Denton, Texas
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