Born and Raised in Black and White

The Perfecting Equilibrium Digest, September 25-October 1, 2024

Oct 01, 2024

The wind blows hard across the Texas plains
Makes some people go insane
While others quietly pray for rain
That's where we came from
We were born and raised in black and white

Comment of the Week

Tom Johnson on The End of Widespread Literacy: Great piece, Chris. I recommend the fine biography of McMurtry. Forgot the author, but the most recent, and maybe the only, one.

Thanks Tom! I found this: Larry McMurtry: A Life, by Tracy Daugherty. Is that the one?

Perfecting Equilibrium Stories

Flowers Close Up

Christopher J Feola

Sep 27

The Pentax 50mm Macro lens is really growing on me as a short telephoto walk around lens for the K-3 III Monochrome.

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The End of Widespread Literacy

Christopher J Feola

Sep 29

A million-word summer. Just on Substack, so not counting the dozens of books I read this summer, and lord knows how many blogs and web pages and email newsletters. So of course I immediately thought I wonder how many words I wrote? Larry McMurtry would have understood.

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Buy Me a Cup of Coffee

Feola Elsewhere on the Internet

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Easter Eggs

My brain is a peculiar place; it likes to play word association, and then play back songs with those words. Here are the songs playing in my mind as I wrote these articles.

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