Memories light the corners of my mind…
A colleague of mine was telling me that China has been invaded so many times by so many people and yet each conquerer was incapable of changing the culture. The culture of a people cannot be extinguished, it will fight subversion and fight outright assimilation. I think New Orleans proved that in spades when the diaspora of the Federal Flood brought a taste of New Orleans to locales near and far, and when we reconvened here in our rightful home. Someone sent this video about New Orleans in the 50s and 60s, when I was a kid, and it made me well up just thinking back to the memories. Will I now be one of those older people who say, “It was much simpler then.”