About twenty years ago someone asked me what I wanted and I said I wanted to move home to New Orleans, have a child and be a parent with someone I love, and live in a beautiful home. Check.<\/p>\n
Of course, nowhere did it say just how difficult all that would be to attain but, hey here’s my victory lap.<\/p>\n
That same someone said I didn’t dare to dream big enough.<\/p>\n
So now the dream is that I live in the LaLa on Bayou St. John and Tin inherits it after I go, and I figure out some way to pay it forward whether here in my community or globally, I want to be more than a hyena – if they are determined enough to help feed all the young-uns in their group, how come we can’t feed the ones in our group?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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