I’m done complaining about the oil spill. It’s safe to read again and not roll your eyes. Really, I mean it. I’ve switched off of reading NOLA books and am now reading James Salter’s “A Sport and a Pastime.” I’ve read Salter’s “Light Years,” and it is still one of my favorite books. His writing [...]
I finished Dan Baum’s “Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans” this afternoon. Then watched the season finale of HBO’s “Treme.” *Sigh* Maybe it is still too soon for me to return to Katrina memories—those feelings of utter hopelessness and gut-wrenching devastation. The knowledge of the fallibility of every level of our American government. [...]
Week Eight. Day 56. No end in sight. Yesterday, James Carville wrote an opinion in the Times Picayune. And there has been much discussion of so many of the English pensioners whose retirements are now tanking because of BP and how callous we here in the Gulf are to those Brits. And there’s all sorts [...]
I had a dream over the weekend, the kind that when you wake up you are pissed at your spouse over. You know the type, right? I dreamed it was the day of our wedding and we were at his house getting ready. All sorts of family and friends were roaming around. The house was [...]
When non-violence in speech, thought and action is established, one’s aggressive nature is relinquished and others abandon hostility in one’s presence. ~Yoga Sūtra II.35 of Patañjali. On the evening of September 11, 2001, I had a yoga class scheduled. Knowing yoga always cleared my mind, I decided not to skip it. It was a small [...]
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like. ~ Baron Thurlow of England (1731-1806). Have we learned nothing in 250 years? I put the likelihood of a BP executive going to jail over the Gulf Coast oil spill at 0%. Why? Well, for starters Obama has [...]
If I hear the analogy of “we don’t shut down the entire airline industry because one plane crashed” again in reference to the deepwater drilling moratorium, I will scream. Or maybe poke someone’s eye out. Or scream WHILE I poke someone’s eye out. First, it’s not “one plane crashed.” It’s THOUSANDS of planes crashing: one [...]
See my new little piece of flare? Look to the right, down, more, more. There! My counter showing how many days BP has been spewing oil into the Gulf. We are on Day 43. Gah. I’d like to say I’m settling in with it, like the proverbial “pebble in the shoe.” But that is not [...]