New Orleans Crescent City Blues

Tonight Im missing New Orleans.  I was suppose to be on my way to the Crescent city this week, but loosing my job made that impossible.  I miss it there so much.  I love asheville and some people call it the new orleans of the mountains, and it is a very cool fun and liberal city.  but its no New Orleans.  the people are different.  in New Orleans everybody is friends.  you are welcome anywhere.  as much pain and devestation as that city has seen, it never destroyed the spirit and people.  New Orleans has always been my diversity fix.  Coming from a very culturally diverse city originally and then moving to NC where there is no diversity except different types of white people, its important for me to see culture and ethnicity. I miss the colorful life of Nola.  I am a very colorful person, so anything that is bright, flashy, glittery and pops out at you I am instantly drawn to, thats New Orleans.  I miss the art, the crazy people, the music, the bars, the spirit of the people, the lake, watching the sun rise over Pontchartrain, the food,  the voodoo, the reality of lives that our government forgot about and the resiliance of a culture.