Well said 5point, as I listen to Gary P Nunn, Guadalupe Days.
I could never live anywhere else. This place not only is in my soul, it is my soul. The hill country, 281, praries of west texas, music, food and the spirit of the people. Having orange blood from being an avid Longhorn fan, and being so passionate about it, yet getting a little hot under the collar if some jack ass from outta state talks smack about the aggies. "I might not like 'em, but thats MY business, not yours." Artists like Cory Morrow, Pat Green, Roger Creager, Robert Earl Keen.
I was getting off a Southwest flight a few weeks back and the people behind me were on a connecting flight. As we were disembarking the plane, the fella behind me looks out the window and says, "Great, another flat, bland, vapid city in Texas. Cant wait to get back to California where we at least our cities have some personality." I almost decked his ass right there. You dont talk shit about my family, my friends, or Texas. So i told him to take it back; there in the airport on the ramp to the terminal. He was really shocked, and I told him , that we are proud people, probally the proudest and we didnt really like it when people talked shit about our state without any real basis for it. Our cities are great and have lots of personality. If he didnt take it back, I'd have to find me a few other proud texans and help him take it back. He promptly apologized. On my way out I stopped in the airport bar, gave the bartender cash for another beer for the shit talker (he was sitting there getting a drik with his wife) and wrote a note on a napkin to be given to the fella when the bartender gave him his beer, which said, "Enjoy your stay." And I signed it with , "1836"
I took a few visitors from outta town down to the alamo the other day, and I am proud to say as always, I got teary-eyed; looking over at the cenotaph, and being present on such hallowed ground. The spirit of those brave men and what they believed in lives in all of us...WE are the realization of their dreams. They did it for us. For that every one of us should say a daily thank you to those brave men. I get weepy when I watch John Wayne's "The Alamo" and hear him talking about what "republic" means, and why hes there.
I thank god I was born here. There are other great parts of the US, but my heart will always be in Texas. I am the luckiest kid on earth to have been born here. Well, me and about 20 million others..lol
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