What brings a tear of joy to your eye?
Rosemary B. Althoff—gratitude, but …
1. Remembering how grateful I am to have 3 grown kids: Peter, Amy,and Mary. They’re my friends as well as my precious kids, and now I also have the people they have added to my family.
2. I will have a tear of joy in my eye when I get over this rotten URI.
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By Rosemary Althoff and Xavier DeSoto
THE JUDGE’S DILEMMA: Life is good in New Orleans for Jeremiah Delacroix, Yale law graduate headed for a cushy job in a white-glove NOLA law firm—until his beloved 93-year-old family maid approaches him with an astounding request. She wants to retain him to take a case involving a land grab with a brutal riot and even murder. The target: Jeremiah’s father and his entire estate.
What brings you peace?
A doctor once told me, “Writing longhand is a good way to regulate a surging, overactive hippocampus. Choose a memory—a good one—and write about it longhand using sensory details. The physical and mental practice of writing causes that organ of the brain to engage, and it begins to slow down.”
My hippocampus, accompanied by a distraught amygdala.
When my mind races, especially if I’m anxious, I grab a pen and my journal and just plunge into writing. The words are not brilliant because I’m not crafting a novel, I’m just pouring out my heart.
In a little while, I calm down. I can, like one of the Shepherd’s sheep, wander into the green pasture and lie down beside the still waters. He restores my soul.
Rosemary Althoff, Author 