It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Bio: Neil Charles Abramson is a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for the 98th district, based in his native New Orleans in Orleans Parish, Louisiana.
