I'm back y'all
Sorry about the hiatus. It's been crazy, what with starting my lawn from scratch, planting flowers, finishing my decorating jobs and painting to get ready for an open house. This house never looked so good. My roommate has already started packing. She found out she can move on campus at GWU by the second week in June. So as not to feel left out I started packing, too.
So you still want to know about New Orleans? Other than a few telltale signs, the suburbs seem normal. In the habitable parts of the city, there are still a lot of empty, boarded up buildings and houses, but traffic is definitely up. But the uninhabitable places are still just that -- uninhabitable. Hopefully, with the mayoral race out of the way (and a most surprising outcome), the areas of recovery that have been dragging will pick up, especially with the new hurricane season just days away.
As for my family, they've never been so blessed. Almost everyone has way more now than they had going into the storm. New or renovated houses, new cars, money in their pockets. Talk about the people of God being blessed.
Ben and Amanda just went down there last weekend with a group of Ashbrook seniors, their adviser and school principal. They were just a hop, skip and jump away in Pass Christian, Miss., so they traveled the extra miles to see New Orleans. Those kids raised $30,000 to help the graduating class of Pass Christian High School. Amanda did a couple stories and Ben e-mailed back some photos. It was pretty neat. Wish I could have gone with them, except for the charter bus.
And now for an interesting read that I picked up a couple weeks ago and couldn't put down. It's called Hinds' Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard. It's actually an allegory about what it's like to really walk with God. Do read it. You'll really be blessed by it.
K-
So you still want to know about New Orleans? Other than a few telltale signs, the suburbs seem normal. In the habitable parts of the city, there are still a lot of empty, boarded up buildings and houses, but traffic is definitely up. But the uninhabitable places are still just that -- uninhabitable. Hopefully, with the mayoral race out of the way (and a most surprising outcome), the areas of recovery that have been dragging will pick up, especially with the new hurricane season just days away.
As for my family, they've never been so blessed. Almost everyone has way more now than they had going into the storm. New or renovated houses, new cars, money in their pockets. Talk about the people of God being blessed.
Ben and Amanda just went down there last weekend with a group of Ashbrook seniors, their adviser and school principal. They were just a hop, skip and jump away in Pass Christian, Miss., so they traveled the extra miles to see New Orleans. Those kids raised $30,000 to help the graduating class of Pass Christian High School. Amanda did a couple stories and Ben e-mailed back some photos. It was pretty neat. Wish I could have gone with them, except for the charter bus.
And now for an interesting read that I picked up a couple weeks ago and couldn't put down. It's called Hinds' Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard. It's actually an allegory about what it's like to really walk with God. Do read it. You'll really be blessed by it.
K-
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