You're Only Good If You Can Do

She Was An Artist. She Held Opposites In Her Mind.

Something Will Be There When The Flood Recedes. We Know That. It Will Be Those People Now Standing In The Water, And On Those Rooftops - Many Black, Many Poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And It Will Be New Orleans - Though Its Memory May Be Shortened, Its Self-gaze And Eccentricity Scoured Out So That What's Left Is A City More Like Other Cities, Less Insular, Less Self-regarding, But Possibly More Self-knowing After Today. A City On Firmer Ground.

For, How Else To Seize Such An Instant? How To Shout Out Into The Empty Air Just The Right Words, And On Cue? Frame A Moment To Last A Lifetime?

It Is Right That You Have To Have A Tolerance For Solitude. But When That Solitude Bears Fruit, You Can Abandon It. You Can Be In The Company Of Others.

I'm Intrigued By How Ordinary Behavior Exists So Close Beside Its Opposite.