I’m going to Houston tomorrow for a work-related conference. Houston, Texas.
I’ve never been to Texas, so I’ll be glad to knock another state off my list.
And I’ll be flying into… George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Fortunately it’s named after the elder, not the younger.
And the temperature’s going to be in the 60s. Woo-hoo!
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States. I’m going to be staying in the Galleria area, or Uptown. I won’t have a car with me, so I won’t really be able to go to other neighborhoods. But the Houston Galleria is apparently the fourth-largest shopping mall in the U.S., so there’s that. And there are apparently numerous dining options around.
Should be thrilling!
There’s the National Museum of Funeral History (“Any Day Above Ground is A Good One”)!
And there’s the umm… ummm… I’m sure there must be something else.
Yeah, too bad you’re not going to San Antonio.
Lucky. All my friends seem to be traveling for work of late.
I don’t get to go anywhere but Mill Basin, Brooklyn.
I used to work a lot in Texas, mostly the Austin area. It’s a great region people-wise. But, it is so very different from most other areas of America, making it a very different country.
For a while, it was a different country. And arguably should be again….
I’ve never been a fan of excluding others merely for their ideas, as un-American a notion that might now be. I hate censorship, whether at a blog-level or national-level. Devolution merely driven by ideological differences, never mind geographic, is short-sighted silliness.
I’m a long-time believer our ideological future belongs to those of us who can stomach Engagement and Compromise, with an understanding that the Truth ultimately wins, always.
America’s greatest day is still ahead of us, despite the shrill sirens of “Doom! Doom approaches!” now firmly entrenched on both sides of our nation’s divide. They’re like children teething who grind their teeth, knowing it does no good — but feels so destructively, carnally good.
rob@egoz.org
Rob,
On what do you base this faith of yours that “the Truth ultimately wins, always?”
Upon “The Wholly Other” do i base my faith in this principle.
rob@egoz.org