I guess it’s not really a detour, more like an unplanned stop. One that needs to be made. When CM and I started this whole process we wanted to teach our kids about the world. What better starting place than New Orleans? Widget is in the back drawing and I keep glancing back at him wondering how everything he sees on this journey will change him.
The city will show them how natural disasters can destroy people’s homes. The levees broke almost three years ago and I am anxious to see how far long they’ve come with reconstruction. Even as I type this I am trying to form my thoughts about what I will say to them about what they see there. My goal isn’t to make them anti-government, but rather to make them aware. Maybe aware of what happens when a government doesn’t fulfill its responsibilities. I don’t know, I’m still working it out.
Luckily, I have until tomorrow to figure it out.
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