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Kinky Friedman stepped on a rainbow at his beloved Echo Hill surrounded by family & friends. Kinkster endured tremendous pain & unthinkable loss in recent years but he never lost his fighting spirit and quick wit. Kinky will live on as his books are read and his songs are sung.

One week left to tour the Tower Life building! @sahistorycolumn

My parents’ anniversary was today, and I always heard it called Jubilee until junior high or high school. I’m glad #Juneteenth is a national holiday, but it still feels like mostly a Texas thing.

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We’ll miss you at @SAISDBrackHS! Congrats, and best wishes in your new position @LillyCalawayMEd 😊

Proud moment for all involved with helping @SAISDBrackHS Early College High School students cross the stage tonight. Congratulations on earning your Associates degree!! It was 4 years of dedicated work and well worth it! @SAISD @SAISDAdvAcPS

Google is celebrating chilaquil.es today, so I am too. I ran across the street from my school to the Las Tapatías de Jalisco to pick up some chilaquiles verdes and a horchata for lunch today 🍳😋

So proud of all of our Eagles that submitted films to the festival 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Great work, y’all! 🦅💜 @SAISD_EdTech @BrackenridgeMFI

Beyond proud of the AMAZING accomplishments of all our MFI students and their teachers. Today, @SAISDBrackHS took best HS short film, best PSA, and the won the grand prize for all High Schools at Film Fest! 🥳👏🏼🙌 🦅💜 #SAISDFilmFest #ProudAdmin @kellyleeduncan @nq_davila

We had an awesome time at the @missionsmilb ⚾️ game tonight 😊

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Our @BrackenridgeMfi Senior awards were tonight! Such a great time celebrating the success of our #Eagles and their #Creativity! #BrackFamilia @nq_davila @HugoOrantes1

People ask to buy them a coffee if what they share has been helpful. I’m asking for a vote for my daughter as mayor of her splash pad. I’d really appreciate this or a RT ❤️ Thank you 🙏🏾 Vote number 4 Savannah. instagram.com/p/C6oz9akxlU9/…

The talents of @SAISDBrackHS art students - WOW and AMAZING! @SAISDFineArts

1/4 Additional new bits of advice I wished I had known earlier (not in my book), as my gift on my 73 birthday: • The best way to criticize something is to make something better. • Admitting that “I don’t know” at least once a day will make you a better person. • Forget trying to decide what your life’s destiny is. That’s too grand. Instead, just figure out what you should do in the next 2 years. • Aim to be effective, but unpredictable. That is, you want to act in a way that AIs have trouble modeling or imitating. That makes you irreplaceable. • Whenever you hug someone, be the last to let go. • Don’t save up the good stuff (fancy wine, or china) for that rare occasion that will never happen; instead use them whenever you can. • The best gardening advice: find what you can grow well and grow lots and lots of it. • Never hesitate to invest in yourself—to pay for a class, a course, a new skill. These modest expenditures pay outsized dividends. • Try to define yourself by what you love and embrace, rather than what you hate and refuse. • Read a lot of history so you can understand how weird the past was; that way you will be comfortable with how weird the future will be. • To make a room luxurious, remove things, rather than add things. •  your parents while they are still alive. Keep asking questions while you record. You’ll learn amazing things. Or hire someone to make their story into an oral history, or documentary, or book. This will be a tremendous gift to them and to your family. • If you think someone is normal, you don’t know them very well. Normalcy is a fiction. Your job is to discover their weird genius. • When shopping for anything physical (souvenirs, furniture, books, tools, shoes, equipment), ask yourself: where will this go? Don’t buy it unless there is a place it can live. Something may need to leave in order for something else to come in. • You owe everyone a second chance, but not a third. • When someone texts you they are running late, double the time they give you. If they say they’ll be there in 5, make that 10; if 10, it’ll be 20; if 20, count on 40. • Multitasking is a myth. Don’t text while walking, running, biking or driving. Nobody will miss you if you just stop for a minute. • You can become the world’s best in something primarily by caring more about it than anyone else. • Asking “what-if?” about your past is a waste of time; asking “what-if?” about your future is tremendously productive. • Try to make the kind of art and things that will inspire others to make art and things. • Once a month take a different route home, enter your house by a different door, and sit in a different chair at dinner. No ruts. • Where you live—what city, what country—has more impact on your well being than any other factor. Where you live is one of the few things in your life you can choose and change. • Every now and then throw a memorable party. The price will be steep, but long afterwards you will remember the party, whereas you won’t remember how much is in your checking account. • Most arguments are not really about the argument, so most arguments can’t be won by arguing. • The surest way to be successful is to invent your own definition of success. Shoot your arrows first and then paint a bull’s eye around where they land. You’re the winner!