Jim DeBuys

Photographs span 50 years from 1970.  JT

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Friends and Family

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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

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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.

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— 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