She Was An Artist. She Held Opposites

If You Lose All Hope, You Can Always Find It Again.

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?

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.

The World Is A More Engaging And Less Dramatic Place Than Writers Ever Give It Credit For Being

With Imagination, You Can Put Something Where Nothing Was.