Hi there friends and future friends. Hope all is well. 👋

This is the easiest and quickest way to get in touch with a lot of you, despite fractured social media.

I am feeling very earnest and sentimental about #Houston and #football and #sports and people. The #weather brings it out. And hashtags like #NFL #NFLPlayoffs.

Here's some stuff I want to say on Monday night, Jan 20, 2025.

❄️With most Houston weather events, I try to extra remember the helping parts and not the painful ones. The moments of grace. Living big and tipping big. Friends helping friends. Been online for most of the big events, different memories with each.

🏈Anyway, I appreciate you all. The 2024 Texans season was the most uplifting one of my entire life for a lot of reasons, mostly because I could and I chose well and intended it and needed it for myself and other people. 

The things I saw with a lot of you were cool af, except for the parts where the best thing that can be said is that we tried.

Y'all impressed me so much, Texans the team and Texans people even if you don't root for them. MY GOODNESS. For good reasons, we talk about the stuff that was a little messed up, but the stuff that was wildly awesome, I am not sure I could list them all. 

And that is just the stuff I know about and witnessed with my living eyes.

❄️Anyway, minor reminders for weather events or any events of great emotional times. Stay generally cool to each other because you don't know what you don't. 

😎If you find someone checks you a bit, it is because maybe you aren't being generally cool to someone they care about. Or maybe other reasons. Search your graceful heart.❤️

🤨You might go, Steph, you were not generally cool 324987394587349587 times. Pretty much every prism of thought and understanding allows for that to happen because human.

Tomorrow is another day. ❄️❄️❄️🌞

My intention for the 2025 #Texans season is to see with my living eyes all of Houston compete with our champion hearts. I am fascinated with the possibilities. 

There are many reasons that Houston is an attractive place to compete and thrive. #HTownMade is real.

Doesn't mean we win, but we increase our win probabilities: competing when we are supposed to compete, and collaborating at scale to win when it makes sense.

☃️Anyway, when the weather people want you to hunker, that is the best help you can provide. Take care of you and yours. Please have fun and send fun pix.

🏈Will Anderson Jr at the end of last season did a presser with local authorities and businesses to talk about preparedness. 

I am training for 2025 Houston sports. Doing the things I need to do for me and mine. Your team is made in the offseason. Keep your hearts open, whether you are right or wrong about what is going to happen is overrated unless you are deep in the being fairly right business.

Anyway, I saw a lot of y'all in 2025. Hope to hang out more to the degree that it isn't like time has passed at all since last I saw you. That we keep on having really f good times, even if and especially when, storms come.

Anyway, I hope you feel appreciated and encouraged at scale. I am thinking of a lot of you all at once if you are a friend or a friend of a friend, yes even you. 

Love, 
Steph

P.S. I am going to teach you my Whataburger Doctrine: Whataburger is my friend. Whata raised me. Whata fed me, saved my life. We've been through a lot of ish. Whata gonna say is, feel whatever way you do about Whata and how Whata is talked about. But if you go out of your way to mess with my friend, that is a choice, you have free will, I am a LITERAL FIRST AMENDMENT DEFENDER, but I would prefer you as a Texan or visitor or guest would keep that nonsense in your head, particularly if you are not from here. (You don't have to say anything sometimes, and I am way past that point on this post). 

P.S.S. Please stay generally cool, never know when you are messing with a friend's friend, Houston is both very big and very small. If I messed with you, I apologize, I don't want any trouble from anyone, just benign fun and good times. Different people see different things as disrespectful, particularly among friends and strangers.

P.S.S. If you didn't like anything I said, well then, close your eyes ahahaha
#Houston #football #sports #weather