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I was looking for something else when I ran across a romantic “tale of the Mermentau” in an old edition of the New Orleans Crescent. It is the story of young, aristocratic Leon de Solis, one of a group of young men who after an attack on a passenger ship, sailed from New Orleans in the early 1800s “with the avowed determination of extirpating the horde of villains who had made the Calcasieu and Mermentau the scene of their exploits.”

You have complete control over your thoughts. Thought patterns develop over a lifetime; a result of the influences of schooling, parents, friends, relatives, TV, movies, etc.
Unfortunately, most of the guidance received about how to think is negative. More effort is spent teaching what you can’t do rather than what you can. Whatever your thinking is now, you can learn to alter it. Study the thinking of successful people.

After the epic poem “Evangeline,” the best-known rhyme about the Cajun country might be Hank Williams’s “Jambalaya,” even if nobody who’s ever lived on any Louisiana bayou ever called anyone else “ma cher amio.”
Some people claim “Jambalaya” may be even better-known than “Evangeline,” and attribute that to the fact that Longfellow never thought about rhyming “good-bye Joe” with “me gotta go,” and that he just never could find a really good rhythm guitar player.