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Karen Telleen-Lawton: CaliTexas 2

by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist
https://www.noozhawk.com/karen-telleen-lawton-calitexas-2/
June 3, 2024 | 3:00 pm

Texas has a lot going for it, as I shared in my last column: a profusion of Blue Bonnets (lupine) and other wildflowers, safe and scenic bike paths, and a gracious Southern style.

They also boast coastlines facing just about every direction, thanks to barrier islands and a sloping east-south coast.

Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Bolivar Peninsula, Texas. (Karen Telleen Lawton)

Texans dress across a similar spectrum as Californians, ranging from casual to better-left-unseen. Their official motto is “Friendship,” which we felt in spades.

I encountered some surprises in the Lone Star State. Most importantly, we didn’t discern a huge difference between Mexican food in California and Tex-Mex. We tested and tasted this proposition all along our route.

A friend explained that Tex-Mex dishes have more cheese, but the only item that bore that out for us was a menu item listed as “chili con queso.” I ordered “con queso” once, naively thinking it was chili topped with grated cheese. Instead, it was melted processed cheese in a bowl for dipping chips.

Other than that disappointing order, Tex-Mex was delicious from El Paso to Galveston and everywhere in between. Ask my bathroom scale if I enjoyed the food!

Another surprise was a remark by a guard at The Alamo that Texas is permitted to fly its flag as high as the U.S. flag.

“Since we were first a country for a decade, we negotiated that right when we joined the Union,” he revealed.

I thought that was a fascinating factoid but wondered (to myself) about Hawaii, which was a kingdom before it was a state.

Turning to the internet, I discovered that any state may fly its flag as high as the American flag – but no higher. So there you go.

You might consider Texas to be a solidly red state. Indeed, Fox News played in every hotel breakfast room we visited. Both U.S. senators plus 25 of 38 Texas representatives are Republican. However, Texans themselves are decidedly purple.

According to Pew polls, 40% are Republican or lean Republican, 39% are Democrat or lean Democrat, and 21% have no lean. This may be why Texas seems environmentally conscientious, with the yawning exception of oil and gas issues.

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Take birders, for instance. In Galveston, we attended a week-long birding event called Feather Fest. Texas is on the Central Flyway and sees an amazing variety of birds, from tiny calliope hummingbirds to dazzling roseate spoonbills.

In a competitive annual bird count, a Texas group almost always comes in first place, which is a tribute not only to the variety of birds but also to the number of birders who go outside to spot them.

Seven of the top 10 count areas this year were Californian (Santa Barbara placed sixth with 196 species), but first place (218 species) and third place (202 species) were Texas regions.

Birders, not surprisingly, are highly interested in land and water conservation and protection.

I asked Feather Fest organizers whether Texas birders tend to lean toward one party or the other. They insisted that you cannot predict. Political affiliation by whether or not someone is a birder. “All Texans are very protective of the environment.”

We met two Texas science teachers at a birding event kayaking through an estuary. (I clarified first that alligator habitat is freshwater, not seawater or brackish water.) I asked them how it was to teach about the environment in Texas. They looked at each other and chuckled. “It’s not easy,” they admitted.

Texas has a whole separate science curriculum than the rest of the nation, they told me. But by and large, they teach about the environment and ignore the politics.

They just get stuff done without mentioning words like “carbon taxes” and “climate disruption.”

Will it work in the long run? I don’t know. The Texas equivalent of our Western Gull is their Laughing Gull, so that may say something.

Plastic-Free July

During my visit to Easter Island, situated 2100 miles west of mainland Chile, I was struck by the ubiquity of plastics. It was a profound experience encountering plastic waste in such a remote and pristine environment, prompting me to reflect on the pervasive nature of plastic waste in our world.

The Library

The public library held a special place in my heart as my first love outside of my family. My connection to it resonated with Susan Orlean’s description in “The Library Book”: “I loved wandering around the bookshelves, scanning the spines until something happened to catch my eye.” The library offered a sanctuary for exploration and discovery, shaping my love for literature and knowledge.

Black Lives Matter

Last week, my email inbox was flooded with what I feared were mere platitudes about Black Lives Matter from organizations I am involved with. Everyone seemed to be expressing apologies, acknowledging that no one had been doing enough. This experience prompted me to reflect on the importance of taking meaningful action to support the Black Lives Matter movement.

Triple Emergencies II

In my last column, I discussed the interconnected global emergencies of pandemics, climate change, and biodiversity loss. A friend reached out to me, seeking clarification on the relationship between these issues. I found it challenging to articulate a clear explanation, prompting me to delve deeper into understanding the intricate connections among these triple emergencies.

Plastic-Free July

The Library

The public library held a special place in my heart as my first love outside of my family. My connection to it resonated with Susan Orlean's description in "The Library Book": "I loved wandering around the bookshelves, scanning the spines until something happened to catch my eye." The library offered a sanctuary for exploration and discovery, shaping my love for literature and knowledge.

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July 23, 2012
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) Traipsing around the Channel Islands for the Channel Islands Naturalist Corps, I help visitors understand the effects of isolation on the botany, archaeology and history of the islands. Even with full summer campgrounds, the islands feel isolated, but they are always…Read the rest
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June 25, 2012
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) Baby boomers have been blamed for everything from overloading the public schools in the post-World War II era to the difficulty of employing millions of young adults in the 1960s. Now they’re accused of driving a surge in senior…Read the rest
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June 11, 2012
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) It takes awhile for new designations to find their way to common observance. If I reminded you that February is Black History Month and March is Women’s History Month, you most likely would say, “Duh.” But you might…Read the rest
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May 28, 2012
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) “In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something — so why aren’t we doing that with social policy?” — Esther Duflo, John Bates Clark Medal for best economist in America under 40 With…Read the rest
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May 15, 2012
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) Most of us look forward to retirement, but retirement planning can be a grind. Seventy million Americans rely on 401(k)s to fund at least a portion of their retirement. Typically our options are spelled out pretty well, but…Read the rest
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May 7, 2012
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) Sometimes what’s sustainable is a good laugh. Recently I guffawed at a New Yorker cartoon and slipped it onto my husband’s dresser. Close your eyes and I’ll describe it to you. So the wife, in a nice ensemble of dress…Read the rest
, , ,
April 10, 2012
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) Officially, the recession has been over for a couple of years, but high unemployment carried its bite long afterward. Now, after peaking as high as 10.4 percent in Santa Barbara County in January 2010, unemployment has tiptoed down,…Read the rest
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March 26, 2012
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) In honor of the looming tax deadline, here’s a limerick from a humor blogger named Madeleine Begun Kane, called “Dear IRS”: Dear folks at the fed IRS,Your rules and your regs are a mess.You’re unfair to the poor.Middle class? Even…Read the rest
, , ,
March 12, 2012
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) Santa Barbarans love to peer out over the ocean. It’s a live masterpiece — the finest in landscape painting dovetailing the best of cinematic magic. It seems so vast as to be unfazed by human actions. Yet we’ve…Read the rest
, , ,
February 14, 2012
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) “The Robot Will See You Now: How Non-Medical Technologists Are Revolutionizing Health Care.” The provocative lecture title for a recent MIT Enterprise Forum Central Coast intrigued me about what is being called telemedicine. Santa Barbara’s business community is heavily involved,…Read the rest
, , ,
January 31, 2012
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) When farmer Mark Tollefson of Fairview Gardens met us early on a chilly January morning, I didn’t know what to expect. My husband, Dave, had contacted Craving Adventures co-founder Eve Sommer-Belin to design an interesting birthday escapade. And that it was: We delved into…Read the rest
, , ,
January 16, 2012
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) It’s not news that Santa Barbarans are uber-involved in environmental issues given our birthright as home to the environmental movement. The legacy of the 1969 oil spill has spawned two generations of activism. Nevertheless, I was surprised to realize just…Read the rest
, , ,
January 5, 2012
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) Last June, I argued in this space (“Is Sustainable Social Security an Oxymoron?”) that Social Security is alive and well for baby boomers. The trust fund, backed by special issue U.S. Treasury securities, is growing at a good pace because most boomers…Read the rest
, , ,
December 19, 2011
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) The Holy Land has been an object of pilgrimage for the Abrahamic faiths — Jews, Muslims and Christians — for more than 2,000 years. Christian pilgrims to Palestine have included as an essential element a visit to Bethlehem, the traditional…Read the rest
, , , ,
December 2, 2011
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) You can be forgiven if you haven’t heard of seabirds called murres. California common murres (Uria aalge californica) disappeared from the Channel Islands and Southern California in 1912, thought to be victims of human disturbance and egg harvesting. If you…Read the rest
, , , ,
November 6, 2011
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) A few years back I brought some teens from Noah’s Anchorage to hike Rattlesnake Trail. The kids were native Santa Barbarans from troubled homes; most of them had little experience with the outdoors. The girls spent the first half-hour alternately…Read the rest
, , ,
October 31, 2011
by Karen Telleen-Lawton, Noozhawk Columnist (read the original in Noozhawk by clicking here) Only a select few could attend the first-ever invasive plant removal project on San Clemente Island. The list of interested volunteers for Channel Islands Restoration was winnowed to 20 privileged to pull ice plant on the southernmost Channel Island, an active Navy bombardment…Read the rest
, , ,
October 18, 2011
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