Jim Debuys
Photographs span 50 years from 1970. JT
Introspection
Jim turned me on to cold drip coffee 51 years ago.
Every morning I make a cup, and toast the dude.
Memories are worth growing old for.
I always sounded the ’s' in Debuys…. he never did. He always pronounced it precisely French with a pause, a reminder of his deep roots in the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. With a law degree from Tulane, and an Old Miss alumnus, he never managed anything resembling work. He was given a hotel to run in the Quarter by a college friend, and that lasted less than a year before he wanderer off in search of the center of the cosmos. His head and heart were in the stars, but he had an excellent golf swing. JT
Jim turned me on to cold drip coffee 51 years ago.
Every morning I make a cup, and toast the dude.
Memories are worth growing old for.
I always sounded the ’s' in Debuys…. he never did. He always pronounced it precisely French with a pause, a reminder of his deep roots in the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. With a law degree from Tulane, and an Old Miss alumnus, he never managed anything resembling work. He was given a hotel to run in the Quarter by a college friend, and that lasted less than a year before he wanderer off in search of the center of the cosmos. His head and heart were in the stars, but he had an excellent golf swing. JT
I had this scroll put away to give to Jim the next time he was in town. Jim and I shared a philosophy,
light in the soul
beauty in the person
harmony in the house
order in the nation
peace in the world.
light in the soul
beauty in the person
harmony in the house
order in the nation
peace in the world.
— To think that two and two are four
And neither five nor three
The heart of man has long been sore
And long ’tis like to be. A. E. Housman
And neither five nor three
The heart of man has long been sore
And long ’tis like to be. A. E. Housman