I just received the news that a young friend's life was lost last night. Senseless, an accident with gun which within one fraction of a second permanently shifted so many others' lives.

I know the young man who was holding the gun when it went off, his brother, his grandparents, all good people, our neighbors and friends.

David was gorgeous, a kind and gentle soul whose regular presence next to me at the farmers market will be deeply missed, and always with an unending question.
He w... read more

It is absolutely overwhelming.
As news slowly now begins to arrive from the more personal accounts of my connections to inside the city it all becomes more horrible, and more real. Apparently the currently strong level of gang violence is being downplayed to the media. One swat team member told a friend that he himself had already been forced to shoot over a hundred people. Another, a young friend's dad, was given a new truck by the emergency mangement team and told to get out, and stop for... read more

We're in Texas today, as away from the madness as we can manage to get. Every friend I have managed to reach or hear news of so far, through jammed cell phone networks, got out. One estimate I heard broadcast today was that as many as 80% of New Orleans regional residents evacuated.

The evacuation wasn't too bad for us as we left shortly after daybreak, just ahead of the mandatory evacuation announcement. With our starting point, Covington, fortunately located on the northshore of Lake Po... read more

Spring is sinking her pearly whites deeply into my psyche.
It is one of the most sparkling mornings I can remember and I'm finding it really hard to get myself into my work mode! But work I must, I'm taking my boy, two of his pals, and a charming longlost old friend of my bf's to the Jazz Festival on friday, so I have to earn it today.
Really, I'd much rather just go for a walk and forget about anything I can't see growing greener alongside my path.