In a New York Minute

“Change is the only constant.”

Heraclitus,

Greek Philosopher

(535 BC-475 BC)

In a New York minute everything can change. There is a song by Don Henley in which he sings about what happens when you forget to pay attention. I felt the weight of this statement heavily this past week. On the eve of Gustav’s projected touchdown in the recently hurricane-torn New Orleans, my daughter went from being perfectly healthy one minute, to having the sniffles the next, and then I was sitting with a doctor as she told me my daughter had pneumonia. Fortunately, the antibiotics kicked in and she is definitely on the mend, but for a couple of days there, things were certainly a little bit scary. And fortunately for the thousands of citizens in New Orleans, Gustav changed direction ever so slightly and this time they were spared the brunt of the storm’s force.