One thing I noticed is that in a family of several children, there seems to be one or two who “get it”easily, don’t have to study hard and will make it at any endeavor they choose. Then there are the rest who study and study just to pass the test. They may do well also but it is much harder. I think I noticed a lot of people in show business or commentators say they were shy or didn’t like school but do well in a forum of entertainment. So there is a place for all.

Great timing for this question. Candice, I just photographed a gentleman yesterday who’s name is Charles McCarthy. He is the family who’s namesake is related to your Charlie McCarthy. I photographed he and his family since it will be the last family photography they will have taken together. He is dying of cancer. I have always wanted to help and I do this part of my business at no charge to this family. The rest of my family is not as philanthropic. Yes, I would like to believe it is nature, or else I failed in teaching how wonderful doing for others really can be for ones soul.

For over 30 years I’ve said that our lives are totally programmed. I’m so happy someone agrees. The reason, I feel, is to deliver to us exactly the feelings that we are meant to experience in our life journey. Our so called “free will” is our emotions, which science has recently shown, making a decision for us, before we consciously do it intellectually. I view life as serving out a sentence of “perfect justice”. Where so called “choices” are concerned; who decides what the choices we face are? I say GOD (governor of destinies)! We magically lack the power to avoid catastrophes for ourselves, or our loved ones. The course of life on earth is the same dramas repeated with a constantly renewed cast. Everything happens because it has no choice. Life is a chain reaction in millions of directions at once.