An unrecalled sage once opined: “That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.” There are thousands of people in Louisiana today that I am confident would agree with that statement. This week’s shared […]

The 18th century French philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau once wrote, “compassion is a natural feeling, which, by moderating the violence of love of self in each individual, contributes to the preservation of the whole species. It is this compassion that hurries us without reflection to the relief of those who are in […]

Before you were born, And were still too tiny for The human eye to see, You won the race for life From among 250 million competitors. And yet, How fast you have forgotten Your strength, When your very existence Is proof of your greatness. You were born a winner, A […]

I wonder how many of us approaching the autumn of our years when reflecting back on our life’s journey will be able to single out the one decision, the one commitment, the one path taken, that stitched together the entire fabric of fulfillment, accomplishment, and happiness from that moment forward? For […]