A little reflection

Children played here
These walls and streets were alive and vivacious...a stanger has now come to clean their mess
Hearts have been called down here, when no one thought help would come--it has come and will continue to come. Volunteers of many trades, or none at all, are enroute or prepare to be, to this Gulf region. This disaster won't win.

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This was their home
They have relocated since the flood but they come back for this ONE TIME event; the demolition of their 'former' home
They are in their work clothes, their nursing scrubs
It is no secret, their household items have been strewn upon lawns and properties five houses, and even two neighborhoods over. Still, two-n-a-half years later.
.Exposure.
Their home, inside out
Baby shoes fall from the tractor claws that bite into the aspestos ridden wood.
.People are running the hoses to keep the dust level down.
"It's like watching grass grow," one of the older on-site inspectors said as we chatted in excitement and saddness.
"We see so many each day," he says. "But each circumstance is different. Each family, story and response... Where is the baby that once occupied those tiny shoes? Did he/she make it?"
Or what about the kid that would shoot hoops after school in that dilapadated portable basketball hoop? Which now lays horizontally claimed by the earth. Weeds and overgrown southern shrubs lay waste to the entry ways, fence and walkways. They slowly creep into the house. Pengins coo in the half attached davenport.

I think all this mess that has come of New Orleans, etc. is part of a beautiful puzzle that will come to fruition in this land. All of this will reflect a bigger, more positive emblem: humanity coming together for those in need.
.Volunteerism.
What each volunteer has individually experienced will change the face of humans course. No doubt. New Orleans has changed me. In ways I am yet to fully know. In ways I had no idea--friendships...reasons unrelated to the Municipality of New Orleans. Maybe all of this will inevitably bring humans closer...relationships, interdependence. We are all connected. We may never know IT'S worth but there is worth to all this. I'm convinced.