Reading this book right now and last night I read 99% of the time that a woman suffers depression and/or contemplates suicide is because of a man. Conversely, 99% of the time that a man suffers depression and thoughts of taking his life is over loss of standing in the community (job, power, money).
I wonder if those statistic change with Katrina? I think 99% of the time, this time, those of us who remain in New Orleans are depressed and contemplating suicide because Katrina has put a weight on us to hope amidst hopelessness, to desire what can’t be grasped, to see what could be while retaining an image of what was, to mourn and long for a constant in the ever shifting landscape.
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”The horror, the horror,” Kurtz said, and he died, his body steaming enigmatically away.
The posts are a lot more BBC’s Absolutely Fablous than Sex and the City. the pushing 50 version