Possible Tattoo
Apr 29I’m considering getting this tattoo down my back… tell me what you think!
My Visit to New Orleans 9 months after Katrina
Apr 19
After so long, one would think that communities could be rebuilt and reinhabited. It is quite the contrary in surrounding New Orleans areas, such as the 9th ward, Chalmette and Slidell.
From what I was told, the rubble that is now piled in center medians, and where lush landscapes once were, at one point filled the streets. Boats still stray from the lake in distant fields and between houses, cars overturned, scattered, and left with the scars of having been completely under water for weeks. Houses from entire subdivisions nothing but damaged shells of buildings left only with a marker of how high the water rose and a vandalistic identifier of search and rescue crews scavenging where they could by boat, few personal effects remain within the houses, and toxic sediment settled throughout every surface some completely demolished by the torrent of water, others rocked off of their foundation and forced into neighboring houses, holes in roofs where people were forced into their attics and out through vents on top of their house.
recollection since June 2005 and earlier
Mar 22What I used to think was a deterioration of my personality seems to just be evolution, and the ugly transitional points are the growing pains.
I can’t say that these days I’m standalone and self sufficient, but what I can guarantee is that loss is much easier to take from a detached point of view, that is, loss to death or loss to friends drifting away. Always much easier to be aloof, but it’s self defeating when you care so much about everyone, and just hurts more in the end as the memories replay endlessly.
I suppose I’ll try to rebuild and recount the past year since I last wrote a personal post in my blurty.