Great Article of Despair and Hope

Every time I read about how New Orleans remains so devastated -- even 16 months later, I breaks my heart. I think the country and world have moved on while New Orleans is stuck in limbo (or worse, dying). Some people have managed to pull themselves up -- and that is what we have to try to encourage and why I am going there.

A great article yesterday in the Times Picayune exemplifies this.

Green has taken to handing out photocopies of names and phone numbers of Federal Emergency Management Agency officials who helped him get his trailer. Standing at curbside, leaning into car windows to chat, he dispenses welcome and encouragement.

It is worth a read.