Can you do me a Favor?

Sometimes I think Favors should have a service fee attached to them especially with the amount of time, effort and self-sacrifice that goes into doing them. That way, people would think twice before asking for one.

Sun-shining days

Photo by Eileen Beniest

Some days you wake up to a sun-shining day and you just know it is going to be perfect. Life on the Bayou is as slow moving as the current that snakes its way through town after town towards the Atchafalaya River.

                                                                                        

Full Circle



Photo by Eileen Beniest

At some point in our lives we can all relate to the desire to ‘come full circle’ especially in our personal relationships with people. Some situations are more complex than others but whatever, we should try not to focus too much on the process of closing that ‘circle’ because oftentimes that very process can alienate us, so that one or more end up being left on the outside of the very ‘circle embrace’ we were trying so hard to realise… When that happens a wonderful opportunity has been lost - Eileen Beniest

Hail to the fool in me...

"I must learn to love the fool in me--the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of my human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my Fool." — Theodore Isaac Rubin