Learning about the world, and east Texas

I've owed you a newsletter for an intimidating number of weeks. Everything is peachy in Adam Keys land, so there's no excuses here. It just became a thing that fell to the bottom of the pile. Sorry 'bout that! While I'm getting my head back into writing this thing, let me share an awesome thing I found last week, and one awesome thing I wrote for a friend.

Pal Brian Bailey runs Uncommon, a community for people who want to slow down and think. Over the course of conversation, he put the idea in my head that I should write something about what I've learned from improv for the weekly Uncommon newsletter. And thus: how improv helped me see the world more clearly.

Texas is a big, complicated thing. On the one hand full of wonderful people, on the other hand the state that brought Ted Cruz to your Congress. On one hand fantastic drawls and accents, on the other hand not exactly the most progressive state. On one hand the state that brought you Lyle Lovett, on the other hand the state that brought you ZZ Top. "Oil man", a video about an east Texas (I have a huge spot in my heart for east Texas, it seems) man's life selling drilling equipment, manages to encapsulate a lot of that big, complicated nature.

Hoping I'll talk to you again in less than three months. Until then, enjoy!

~akk