Simple Wisdom

There's a reason some truths stay with us for a lifetime. For Chuck, it was a Swedish proverb stitched onto a little plaque in his mother's East Houston kitchen: "Shared joy is a double joy. Shared sorrow is half a sorrow." Decades later, that simple wisdom still rings true — the longer we live, the more we understand that the people closest to us shape the texture of our days. Family. Trusted colleagues. A few faithful friends, cultivated and kept across the years. The secret really is in the sharing.