• Do the best you can within your limitations. Don’t half-ass things because of your limitations.

• There is no useless information. Relevancy is the measure. All information is useful if it is relevant at a given point in time.

• Some ignorance is best left untainted.

• “The purchase of art is one of the few instances of socially acceptable conspicuous consumption”.

• There are always people willing to die for a cause, and people willing to kill for a cause. Moral examples are set by the first. History is written by the second.

• If you just keep on going, you’ll get there.

• There’s only so much you can do before what you do becomes all you can do.

• For centuries, scores of unmitigated do-gooders and difference-makers have tried to do good and make a difference. Granted, thanks to the efforts of a few enlightened folks we have better gadgets now. But really, is the world inherently a better place than it used to be a thousand years ago?

• Fibonachos = Nachos so good you can’t help eating 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21… of them.

• Regardless of how greatly the notion of civil society is parsed and euphemized, it all comes down to food, sex and shelter.

• Long Shtick = When the BS supersedes the journey.

• The finer the raiment the deeper the gayment.

• The depth of a culture –or a community– is reflected in the quality of its dumplings.

• San Antonio’s zeitgeist is not fond of itself.

• PTSD = Post Traumatic Spurs Disorder

• Circumstantial ignorance is understandable and sometimes tolerable. Willful stupidity is neither.

• Is it me, or does everything seem to run on a “complex set of algorithms”?

• Making efforts effortless is being efficient. Making effortless efforts is being lazy.

• If something can be lowered why can’t it be highered?

• Weaselopochtli = The conniving, ne’er-do-well, half-brother of the Sun God Huitzilopochtli

• From the Audacity Of Hope to the Paucity Of Nope. From nowhere to nowhere in no time at all.

• Texpertise = What makes every Texan uniquely qualified to give advice or opinion on any subject. We are all Texperts.

• Good or bad is defined by whose fingers are on the purse strings.

• Truth is inevitably distorted by consensus.

• There’s a thing for everything.

• In societies that allow utopian constructs, intellect tends to be untethered by context. In dystopian formulations of society, context is what drives intellectual conceits. In both cases, the outcomes are extreme and fallible. Yet, of both, it is only dystopia that allows random quirks fancies and foibles into its equational sequences.

• It is when ignorance colors judgement, that judgement can only distinguish black or white.

• In the absence of grand gestures there are no magnificent failures, just the periodic petering-out of ineptitude.

• It’s surprising how general theories frequently apply only to the most specific of circumstances.

• Celebrity for a cause invariably subjects any cause to the vagaries of celebrity.

• On its own, fortuitous circumstance is a weak foundation for sustainable enterprise.

• At the intersection of art and non-profit is where art becomes diminished.