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Enjoy and document those things, people, and places that are important to you because later they will be gone. Revisit to #StFrancisville

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Enjoy and document those things, people, and places that are important to you because later they will be gone. Recently, a good friend and I went to  St. Francisville Louisiana. I was really looking forward to revisiting some areas that I first found back in 2012.  The first place I revisited was a graveyard and church of The Lady of Mount Carmel Church.  I was disappointed that the graveyard of Lady of Mount Carmel church was locked to the public. I was also disappointed that the entrance to a small area below a  section of the cemetery was locked as well. The biggest disappointment was that this really kewl field with awesome statues was gone. This place was an import statues business called Borders. Borders went out of business after decades of business, due to Covid. I'm glad that I took footage of Borders on a video to my song "When I See You Again." Ever so reminding me to enjoy and document those things, people, and places that re important to you because later the

The House of Expectations (c) 2021

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“There he is again,” the father said. “Just try to be peaceful and understanding,” his third wife said. They were responding to the doorbell ringing. “Maybe, we can just ignore him. He’ll go away.” “No matter what. He’s your son.” The father loudly sighed and rolled his eyes.   Why couldn’t his son be more like him? All the things that he had worked hard for. Things like the leased new Cadillac, and his wife’s pristine BMW and the five hundred thousand dollar two story house. The boy was weak minded; just like his mother; the father’s first wife. He was expected to be sensitive to the boy’s feelings. Like the way he cried that last Christmas because he didn’t get the same number of gifts as his stepchildren. The boy was in his late twenties-but hardly even close to being a real man.  If worse came to worse, he could always turn on the sports channel on his huge high-definition flat screen television. That distraction would be great for the moments when the silence was so damningly lo