God bless the Big Easy
My blogging has been virtually nonexistent over the last 48 hours because I’m transfixed on developments in New Orleans. I love that city, having travelled there innumerable times, and I’m now heartbroken for her people. Their losses are almost unimaginable.
New Orleans is a national treasure, unique among American cities. Of all the places to which I’ve travelled, both here and abroad, New Orleans is the most … soulful. But now, it’s a broken city, and out of control. And as I look at the destruction there, which is, I think, to a scale unparalleled in our history, I keep wondering how — and whether — New Orleans can overcome it.
ADDED — Needless to say, boys, this ain’t happening. Take the money you would have spent and give it to the relief and reconstruction efforts.
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