DAY 606 RACHEL DANGERMOND & TIN DANGERMOND I came back from San Francisco three months before the 2005 Federal Flood. A couple of years later, I watched a documentary called “Trouble the Water” and in it, a fairly large Black man is wading through flood water up to his chin carrying an elderly woman up high over his head to safety. He said, “I always wondered why I was here. What God wanted from me.…
Warren Easton’s marching band is parading around the neighborhood making Carnival almost unavoidable, but that’s alright because honestly, let’s just get in and get out. Again, Mardi Gras is early this year – February 17 – and I’m barely recovering from the holy trinity of Hanukkah/Christmas/Kwanzaa not to mention New Year’s. My friends are all going nuts it seems with more couples splitting up than hooking up, and I have to say all of the…
2014 was a year that was a pivotal year for me and this household. This was my first full year in the Spirit House and they say that a house is truly not a home till you break bread with loved ones at the table (multiple checks), experience death and loss (my friend, Dina Ann LeBlanc May 29, 1964 – June 5, 2014), welcome a newborn (Stella) into the world, plant something in the ground, and…
Today is my mother’s 79th birthday. Or it would have been had she not passed right before her 74th birthday. My usual celebration is to get dolled up in all her jewelry and finery and go out somewhere nice for dinner – only right now I can’t afford it because of a beach trip I’m taking in a couple of days – so I’m going to just channel her all day and try to find…
Gus Bennett photographed Tin and me for the NOPP and that day, I made two friends – New Orleans style – and now people are multiplying by the dozens – so far more than 400 people have seen the photo posted on Facebook and many have commented. It’s amazing to me how yesterday I knew hardly any of these people and suddenly our lives are intersecting right here in this small section of the world.