Quotes from people who put it far more beautifully than I
"New Orleans and the moon have always seemed to me to have an understanding between them.
An intimacy of sisters grown old together. No longer needing more than a speechless look to communicate their feelings to each other.
This lunar atmosphere of the city draws me back whenever a time of recession is called for.
Each time I have felt some rather profound psychic wound, a loss or a failure, I have returned to New Orleans.
At such periods I would seem to belong there and no place else in the country." ~Tennessee Williams
"Times are not good here.
The city is crumbling into ashes.
It has been buried under a lava flood of taxes and frauds and maladministrations
so that it has become only a study for archaeologists.
Its condition is so bad that when I write about it, as I intend to do soon, nobody will believe I am telling the truth.
But it is better to be here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio."
~Lafcadio Hearn 1879
I'm just all in love with my city recently.