April 20, 2006
Almost eight months after the storm
Things that are heart-wrenching:
Houses that are open for all to see but not emptied or gutted, indicating that no one has yet come back
Piles of now-debris that were once an important part of someone's life
Blocks of dead trees
The overall disarray
Things that are heart-warming:
The variety of homemade street signs - in my neigborhood, there are street names sloppily painted on boards, stenciled on little shutters, and written on decorated plastic
Slowing down for a citizen who is filling in a pothole with dirt
People carrying on with their daily business the best that they can
The overall feeling that we're all going to pitch in and make it through this
Posted by Shokufeh at April 20, 2006 12:20 PM
Shokufeh - for some reason i wish i lived there. maybe this is naive. but, i feel like the process y'all are going to go through to re-build your city will be conducive to building real, lasting relationships. when i look at the tens of thousands of my neighbors living in anonymity, i envy New Orleans. but, please, correct me if i'm being naive.