Speaking out is a necessary beginning, but not the same as real change. - Howard Schultz

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist
in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole
experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the
long run than outright exposure. Life is either a
daring adventure or nothing. — HELEN KELLER, THE OPEN DOOR , 1957

But the reasons against going to New Orleans — that spicy southern city known for jazz and Mardi Gras and hospitality — were the very reasons we had to go.

At the very heart of being a merchant is a desire to tell a story by making sensory, emotional connections. Once, twice, or 16,000 times.