Forces

Everything is a force of nature.
We must concentrate forces and work together in order to remain in our bowl below sea level.
In the same day Gustav is stirring up activity in the Gulf with New Orleans dead center of the potential direct hit areas the list of The New Orleans 100 comes out.
100 organizations, musicians, artists, businesses, and social entrepreneurs stirring up change in New Orleans.
A juxtaposition indeed.

In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.


“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”
- jack kerouac

So call me a lunatic but I am dedicated to a place, a people, and a history I am fortunate enough to be a part of.
I know what it means to miss New Orleans.
And so do thousands of other human beings
And so I say to those who spend their days commenting irrelevant and non-factual information onto sites across the web, I have the following information for you.
We are all in the same boat.
Levees.org
The hurricane did not destroy us, the levees and governmental failures share responsibility for that.
And remember over 20% of the countries goods come through New Orleans, not to mention the amount of oil.
Y'all are guaranteed to be affected so please don't be so quick to wish us harm. After all, we welcome your visit any time.
We're not going anywhere else.
It's likely you won't either with such ease if we are to fall ruin.
Wish us well. Send the good and leave your bad for your own community.