I have friends as well as clients in Houston and I’ve been reading everything I can as well as trying to get ahold of them making sure they’re all ok (they are, by the way, thank goodness) — but it’s made me think about the bigger picture here . . .

There will always be tragedies in life — just look at the news these days (politics aside) — flooding in Houston and in India with lives lost, countless robberies, shootings, etc. A friend of mine from art school just lost one of her kids in a tra...