On My Mind – Going Home – 9/17/2018

“So Long As The Memory Of Certain Beloved Friends Lives In My Heart, I Shall Say That Life Is Good”

Helen Keller

I wasn’t able to post this weekend for the very best of reasons.  I spent the weekend in Austin, TX – Home of my Heart – for a weekend with 3 of my oldest and dearest friends and their spouses.  I like to joke that I left Texas in 1987 when I finished Law School and I’ve been trying to find a way back ever since.  One way or another, I’ve managed to get back for at least a weekend almost every year.

There are plenty of reasons to return – The University, the chance to see the Horns play, the love that I have for the city and it’s food and it’s music and it’s amazing, unique atmosphere – but the thing that truly brings me back are the friendships.  I’m not going to write much tonight – just share a few pictures.

These guys have been with me – one way or another – since I was 19 years old.

Every single one of us married so far above our heads that none of us can really understand how we managed to pull it off.

I do sometimes pity Thomas Wolfe – there’s never been a time in my life when I didn’t feel like I could make make my way back home.

I hope I never live so long that the sight of that Tower lit up for a win doesn’t make me break out in a big, stupid grin.

Plenty of season to go but that was one very sweet win – Hook ‘Em Horns!

Guys – thanks for one helluva weekend and thanks to you girls for putting up with our ebullient but – hopefully – endearing behavior.  It’s been a long, strange trip but you guys have made every mile worthwhile.  I pray that I’m not the last to go because I want you guys there at the end with Sue, helping her to laugh by telling all the stupid stories about the times we’ve had together and the memories we still have a chance to make.

In Hoc Signo Vinces!