A lot of people feel the Mississippi Gulf Coast could be as beautiful and amenable as the Florida Panhandle.

We want to see the casino activity here go beyond gaming. You're really competing with Myrtle Beach.

The big question is, What do we do?. We need to establish what we're going to work on.

Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883 There is no situation so chaotic that God cannot from that situation create something that is surpassingly good. He did it at the creation. He did it at the cross. He is doing it today.

In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year's end to the next is what appears on greetings cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets. . . . Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

I always have my camera with me. I try to take pictures of things that people take advantage of every day. I focus on color and texture composition. I like to appreciate things from a very different point of view. I am an abstract thinker and for me to focus in on these images grounds me. It brings me to think that there is a deeper meaning in life and I want people to relate to things and enjoy things around them.