Lynn D Carlisle DDS

Tom Hanks was interviewed in the August issue of "Reader's Digest" on his upcoming IMAX movie "Magnificent Desolation". In the article, he summed up life as "one damn thing after another." (He was borrowing this quote from the British poet laureate John Masefield.)

We all have weeks where it seems like all we have is "one damn thing after another." It can range from mini grumbles like upset patients, team problems, bad accounts, and insurance hassles to mega grumbles like Mike Robichaux's who had the eye of Hurricane Katrina pass over his house in Slidell, Louisana.

Katrina damaged his house and office. He was recovering from this when he sustained facial lacerations, a broken bone in his treating hand and 2 crushed vertebra. (A tree fell on him as he was being Paul Bunyan by clearing the land around his house of trees felled by Katrina. Mike reports that he should heal well and be ready to go back to work in about a month.)

Bob Frazer report on Mike Robichaux in the ISOC Discussion Forum

Life brings us problems, failures and difficulties. They can overwhelm us when we have too many damn things at a time.

During these times it helps to remember the "Serenity Prayer".

"God grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change,

Courage to change the things I can,

And wisdom to know the difference."

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