Volume 7 · The Long Afternoon · Essay 271
Texas Two-Steps
Texas Two-Steps is a small handle on a large fact. Grip it, and the fact becomes easier to carry.
What this concept offers is a pause — one extra beat between what happens and what you do about it. Civilisation, someone said, is measured in that beat.
At the bus stand in a small town, goodbyes are long and arrivals are loud. Both are correct. A life is measured by how seriously it takes each.
In the end, life asks only whether we were awake while it happened. You will meet this idea again this week, wearing different clothes. Now you will recognise it.