The Wind Is Not Yours to Command The wind does not care where you intended to go. It does not consult your plan. It...
Primer
Primer is a combination of lessons learned, rules to live by, narrative on key moments of history and how that shapes who we are, and more generally, practical advice based on Switch’s experience of going above and beyond, and making the most of the life you have been given. One of the purposes of The Royal Texan is to remind us that the old fashioned ways of conducting oneself is not an antiquated approach to life. Much can be learned from the paths of those who tread them before us.
Read the Weather Before It Reads You As any observant person who lives along the Florida coast can attest, storms rarely arrive as suddenly...
What the Water Still Knows Most people carry a water memory. A beach at first light. A weathered dock along the Florida Intracoastal, silvered...
Modern life rewards noise. Attention is immediate, opinions are constant, and identity is increasingly something that must be maintained rather than lived. In such...
Why the Wisest Car Buyers Arrive on Purpose, and Always Late Experienced buyers have a habit of arriving late. Not carelessly late — deliberately...
Stewardship, Legacy, and the Work of Cleaning What We’ve Left Behind Low Earth orbit is, at present, something of an estate in disrepair. Decades...
Texas doesn’t ease you into the day. The sky is still deciding between navy and pale gold. The air carries that brief, honest coolness...
The Moment That Reveals Everything There is a particular moment, if you know to look for it, that reveals everything about a room. It...
Reinvention, Stewardship, and the Quiet Advantage of Midlife There is a persistent myth in modern culture that transformation requires destruction. We are told that...
There is a kind of presence that announces itself, and another that is only understood in retrospect. The latter is the more enduring. It...