Today we fly off to our favorite city in the world - New Orleans. While there, we'll eat incredible food, enjoy the warm temperatures (while a blizzard rages at home), walk a ton, listen to a bunch of great music, and spend some quality time with family. It will be a powerful tonic for one exhausted by a career in retail here at the end of the holiday period.
We'll engage with a bunch of people both like us and different from us, and that is something that is nearly uniquely New Orleans. The city itself was molded via so many influences, but each melted into each other and left commonality - a love of music, food, sports, religion.
Can the same be said about other great cities of the world? Will one be welcomed as an outsider from "flyover country" in non-tourist confines of San Francisco? Or New York? Or Paris? No. We're divided as a country as we've never been since the segregated south. The sad part? We're segregating ourselves based on our politics.
Stupid.
Thus, give me New Orleans. Give me a big ass beer, a second line parade, Cajun music, crawfish etouffee, hockey and football on the big screen, and the Eucharist at mass. I'll love it and take it all in with brothers and sisters - all different from me, but sharing the same love.
Indeed. Give me New Orleans.
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