Throw whatever it is at it and see what sticks
While BP is figuring out how to get us out of this fine mess they have gotten us into, I sat in the living room with Tin reading Farm Animals, a book my aunt had given him. Oink Oink, Moo. T’s mother came in and sat on the other couch and said that BP is moving to plan B and that basically no matter what “it is over for Louisiana.” I looked out the window, it was raining outside, I had just spent sometime walking in the rain with a friend as our dogs played together in the smelly lagoon (it hasn’t rained so the lagoon was low, which makes it smelly) and we talked about braving it out, keeping our minds towards the light, not the dark.
T was at the gym exercising her knee because the injury she had over the Mother’s Day weekend at the beach has not gotten better and she fears she will need surgery. She fears her injury will upset our trip to Spain (and Tangiers) and so she is fretting about getting surgery now if she needs it rather than later.
Meanwhile oil is gushing into the Gulf – meanwhile Louisiana fisherman are lining up to become BP independent contractors and getting trained in oil clean up – and they are thinking about now, about supporting their families, but they are sick to their stomach that what they got up every morning and loved to do, FISH, might be a thing of the past.
Meanwhile my cyber friend was planning a trip to India but cancer got in the way. Instead of gathering with family, she’s been gathering her hair off the floor. She now wonders when her hair will grow back and what will it look like.
I looked once more out the window, through rain, at the bayou where a fish jumped out of the water. Is this something that will pass? Will we here in Louisiana, in New Orleans, weather this one? On Tuesday hurricane season begins and the predictions are for a gnarly summer. Will the hurricane come and disperse the oil?
We finished farm animals and moved to singing a song, one I made up about Tin being a pookie bear who dances all day long. A friend text me, he wrote, “Depressed about oil… Cant watch talking heads. So we woke up and watched super bowl” – sometimes questions like is the president being presidential in this crisis? just what is going to happen to Gulf if that oil doesn’t stop spewing? Should all of our happiness and joie de vivre rest on a single trip planned? have multiple choice answers.
I went online but the NFL hasn’t released the full version of the Super Bowl on DVD yet. I didn’t tape it. What was I thinking? I didn’t tape the Super Bowl on my DVR. Wow, I could just spit but no, instead, I’m thinking look what I have to look forward to – the release of the 2010 Super Bowl DVD!
Hope dies last as my Russian Flower tells me.