Anniversary

Aug 29, 2009 00:17

I hate to commemorate such a day, but 29 August in a huge deal for those of us who live on the South Coast ( Read more... )

katrina, drinking, new orleans

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docbrite August 29 2009, 05:59:38 UTC
I still look at this picture with the same morbid fascination I look at Jackie O. in Dallas in her pink Chanel suit. You just wanna scream, "DO SOMETHING! TRAGEDY LIES AHEAD!"

That's just how I felt when I look at the end of Soul Kitchen, which I wrote days before we went into exile.

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marquisdd August 29 2009, 16:33:57 UTC
I wonder if everyone has a Chanel Suit Syndrome trinket, photo, paragraph, song, whatnot, that they pore over with equal morbidity.

I sincerely hope not.

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anonymous August 29 2009, 09:47:38 UTC
The last few sentences of this post I can relate to on a very real level... how odd it seems that when my life was rather crazy and unpredictable I never stressed and now that things have settled down, money situation is somewhat in check and I'm not drinking a ton, all the sudden I'm a ball of stress 24/7. My biggest fear is this becoming only worse with time.. yikes. Maybe now that I have things which I fear losing, that fear reveals itself as anxiety and occasional panic. When I had nothing to lose, I had no fear.

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scottynola August 29 2009, 14:37:08 UTC
August 27, 2005.

I remember having that day off, sitting here in the soon to be Lost Apartment, reflecting on what a wonderful life I had and how happy and incredibly lucky I was, and what great plans I had for the future.

In the weeks that followed, I often looked back to 8/27/05 and wondered if it was my fault (as everything revolves around me) because I dared to be content and happy. I too was on the crazy pills for a long, long time.

And on this anniversary of horror, I try to remember the kindnesses and love I was shown from total strangers during the Time of Wandering, rather than the brutish evil of a Republican controlled government that abandoned a great city to die--or the brainless cruelty of so many others who thought (and still think) we got what we deserved--although to date not one of them has had the balls to say it to my face----which is why they still have teeth and don't need a wheelchair

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