{"id":9544,"date":"2015-09-17T07:03:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T11:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2015-09-12T01:18:07","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T05:18:07","slug":"10-year-reflection-on-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2015\/09\/10-year-reflection-on-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Year Reflection on New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been so busy and just coming back from vacation to have much reflection on New Orleans 10 years after Hurricane Katrina. Sometimes painful memories are too difficult to relive but still deserve recollection<\/a> and at the very least acknowledgement, which is what I’m doing (as I write this on 9-11) and at the first opportunity I’ve had since the August 29th anniversary, when my world and beloved city broke and it took a while to put back together.<\/p>\n

On this note, rather than recount my own experience, I’ll note a really wonderful essay I read by Adam B. Kushner<\/a>, who happens to be from New Orleans and the editor of PostEverything and the Outlook section of the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

His refection in his article, “I didn’t know what it means to miss New Orleans<\/em><\/a>” (the same title of one of songs that always tugs at my heartstrings), read as if he was writing my own (except maybe without having elderly parents and a dying father who at first did not want to leave and friends who were stranded). The difference is that I didn’t think that we shouldn’t rebuild.<\/p>\n