Last night we went to the opera to see Verdi’s Requiem and we both took a long sigh when the beginning started with may they find eternal peace. Big sigh, big long sigh. We left the opera, I was feeling a little forlorn, not much in the mood to go anywhere. We almost went by Meaux Bar but I had just been there the night before with a friend, and then we ended up just stopping in the Spotted Cat. Great mood lifter – the Cotton Mouth (Jazz Viper members) were playing and as they got in their groove in walked a very tattooed young girl and a tall thin guy with a long beard – they took off their coats and started jitterbugging like in the movies. We knew we had found our right groove – you mourn, you grieve, you move onto life and dancing.<\/p>\n
Thank god for New Orleans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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