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31 Places in Plaquemines Parish Removed from Latest NOAA Maps
Despite decades of discussion about the problem in Louisiana, coastal land loss can be an abstract idea for people who don’t live in those areas.
I saw this headline while I was home a few weeks ago, and I couldn’t agree more with this quote. This is why the work that my Dad does in coastal wetland restoration and the oral history project my friend Darcy is running on coastal towns are so important. Coast-line loss is is the perfect example of how environment and culture affect each other, and why it’s so important to keep them both intact.
“It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.”
I had somehow never read this when I was in middle school, and after raiding our giant room of books at school I decided it was time. It’s so good! The sci-fi/fantasy world Madeleine L’Engle created was so beautiful and fantastic, all while including so many puns and plays on words! And I loved reading a book for young people with such a strong leading lady. Please drop everything you’re doing and go read it if you haven’t done so yet.
“I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.” ~ Ella Fitzgerald.
In this photo, she is performing at Mr. Kelly’s nightclub in Chicago in 1958. Photo by Yale Joel//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.
“One of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.” — Joan Didion, “Goodbye to All That”
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