Just wanted to let anyone who knows about my blog know that I will start sharing some notes periodically. Initially I set this blog up to get some of my photography up. Recently I've felt as though this would be a good place for me to begin sharing some thoughts, ideas, stories, etc.
So, if you notice that I'm now posting text, don't be surprised.
I don't know what it is about Louisiana that makes me feel like writing. I tend to get this feeling when I am in a foreign place. I know. You're thinking, "Hello! Richard, Louisiana is not foreign." Yeah, yeah. I know it isn't really foreign geographically. Although, I can say that I've never seen a river act the way that the Ouachita is acting right now. Louisiana is foreign in a different sense of the word. I'll give you the reasons that I have for feeling a like a bit of an outsider looking in (even though I've lived here for five months now).
1. If you've never been to a Mardi Gras parade, you'll never understand the stigma that goes with it. There is a mysterious feeling that goes with it. Something strange, yet grossly intriguing. The only other place I've had that feeling, that fascination, was a fiesta in Villa Madero, Michoacan, Mexico.
I loved it.
2. Saints fans are hardcore. I cannot imagine what it could have been like to follow a team through some of the things that have happened in this state. I refer mainly to Katrina. I think that is awesome to see so many people so incredibly happy about something so simple, yet so symbolic.
Glad to be a newborn Saints fan.
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