A New Year And A New NO Metroblogger
Greetings, this is Maitri, who will be back in her Lower Garden District home once we are upon the third month of this year. Even though I will be in my home for much of the month of February, I’m none too happy that my birthday, which happens to fall on Ash Wednesday this year, will find me in the wilds of Houston, TX and not in New Orleans. It is a great reminder as I journey another year into the fourth decade of my life that the unexpected happens (dun, dun, duuuuun…), and that I normally spend most of Mardi Gras day and the next in bed, with a bag of ice on my head, Advil in my tummy and my existence bemoaned.
For my first post, I offer you the New Year’s message from my usual hangout, my very own ePapyrus, VatulBlog. It’s great to be on NO Metroblogs. Here’s to more of this lot’s thought-provoking posts and insightful discussion in the ever-effervescent comments section.
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Warm, muggy and sunny in Houston, Texas on January 1st. A good sign that 2006 is for me? Last night
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Houston has had the benefit of the New Orleans brain drain for the last 25 years. How often have we heard the phrase: “Shutting down the NO office and moving their people to Houston.” Now Houston can have the crime left behind - crime caused to some extent by the economic conditions caused by the drain from New Orleans. “Your people”? You have been taking some of the cream of “our people” for the so long now.
Whew! I think your time in Houston has pushed you toward the cerebral…. come back soon to N.O. and find your soul again!
Some people can be cerebral (which I don’t claim to be at all) and soulful at once; in fact, NO Metroblogs is a space that showed me that this can happen and does in … New Orleans … gasp! Are you suggesting that New Orleanians don’t think a lot? Don’t tell me the brain drain left us that incapacitated.
Granted, I should come home and soon. But, don’t assume it’s going to stop me thinking any.
I have had it with the southerners are stupid load of bullcrap
spewed by Yankees for generation after generation.
Heaven is above your head - North.
The soil turning over below your feet that feeds us is South.
Also known as Hell to those that choose to believe in it.
The sun rises in the East - Good.
The sun sets in the West - Bad.
Laurie