Thursday; September 3
In yesterday’s post, we discussed the impact of the 1935 hurricane on the Florida Keys. One of the key’s most notable residents during that time was Ernest Hemmingway. The author had made a successful career out of describing human conditions, but the events following the devastation seemed to derail him. The incredible loss of property and the futility in the loss of so many lives challenged him to tell the story to the outside world. As I read some of his observations from the days following the storm, I found another quote of his from his book “The Garden of Eden”. In the novel he notes, “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”. On the surface, this might seem to be a bit odd, but as we dig deeper into the thought, it seems to become quite accurate. Interestingly, for me, there is another author that seems to underscore this, King...