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Blessings Of Age
When you’ve seen the world move right along After burying people who are better than you When you are old enough to be humble About ever being alive And still being alive…
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Mary Did You Know
I don’t January like I used to January. Thank you, aging. Back when my hairs were many, and dark, my New Year’s Resolutions were serious, but silly. I had my facts wrong. I
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A Life Of Giving
Laurelle, my father’s hospice nurse, sits next to Dad, asking questions, “How did you sleep? How often did you wake, and was it because of pain?” He is old, forgetful, dying of cancer, his
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Harry Truman Methvin
Story By Pierre Fontenot Main photo by Liz Anne Mueller. Other images courtesy Vance Perkins and Kara Clayton Bergeron. “I was in his first homeroom class. Jacket from the 1940s, as country as you can get.
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The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree
… a story for people who want their lives to matter, but mostly, they feel small, and anonymous, wonder if anything sticks… The reaction to the death of Harry T. Methvin caused people to
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Things You Have To Figure Out For Yourself
Everyone starts out blank 1. Figuring out who you are. 2. Figuring out the purpose of life. 3. …and your purpose within life. No diplomas for this stuff 4. Figuring out you ‘n
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Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also
On August 24th, in the year 79 AD, after centuries of being a mountain, Mount Vesuvius became a killer. Maybe the mountain gave warning, some, a little, the animals acting strangely, maybe there was
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Change With The Change
A story for parents and grandparents, who wonder, if anything they say, sticks. When I was young, I didn’t want what my elders were selling, all that slow ‘n steady, do right, even if
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We May Not Pass This Way Again
(In July of 2014 I did not know what was coming.) I was driving Clifford, my 1992 Ford dually diesel, 300,000 miles on the motor, body looked like half a million, headed to Texas,
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Southwest Louisiana Loves Ben Terry
By Pierre Fontenot If you want to appreciate the best of Southwest Louisiana, it’s not nature and climate, it’s the people. Sometimes crusty and rusty, occasionally ahead, occasionally behind, but where they really shine,
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