Change of Plans
Today I got a mailer from Tulane University down in New Orleans. I’m one of their alumni, so I get these updates about what they’re doing that ask me to send money to support them financially. This one, from the President Scott S. Cowen, is dated August 25, 2005, less than a week before Katrina hit the city.
I wonder what the next newsletter will say about the $37 million renovation of the university center that was due to be completed in June 2006, or the new residential hall that was supposed to be opening this month. They were going to be breaking ground on a second residential hall, too. And that’s just some of what they’ve been working on.
It just strikes me as odd for some reason. Maybe my mind is tainted from seeing the black population of New Orleans not being given provisions during the hurricane. Maybe it’s the knowledge of the poverty in the city that was brought to light with how badly those people were treated and how many of them died.
It’s just gives me a weird feeling inside, like something is off base and I’m not sure what that feeling even means. It’s not like I have any answers or even know all the appropriate questions to ask. I live in an area with an immense amount of affluence close by and an equally immense amount of lack around another corner, too.
It doesn’t seem like this is the way things are supposed to be even though things have been this way for a long time. Where is the switch that turns on the light so I can see? Why do I have a rumbling in my being that is so intense I can’t even put words around what it is because there aren’t any thoughts that are even coherent? What happened to us in this world? What is going on here and why hasn’t this changed?
Do you have a clue? Please write to me and tell me your thoughts. You can post your comments here or go to my website and send me an email.
Blessings!
Laura
Thanks for taking time to read what is here.
http://www.LauraCohnMusic.com
Where Music Meets Artistry
I wonder what the next newsletter will say about the $37 million renovation of the university center that was due to be completed in June 2006, or the new residential hall that was supposed to be opening this month. They were going to be breaking ground on a second residential hall, too. And that’s just some of what they’ve been working on.
It just strikes me as odd for some reason. Maybe my mind is tainted from seeing the black population of New Orleans not being given provisions during the hurricane. Maybe it’s the knowledge of the poverty in the city that was brought to light with how badly those people were treated and how many of them died.
It’s just gives me a weird feeling inside, like something is off base and I’m not sure what that feeling even means. It’s not like I have any answers or even know all the appropriate questions to ask. I live in an area with an immense amount of affluence close by and an equally immense amount of lack around another corner, too.
It doesn’t seem like this is the way things are supposed to be even though things have been this way for a long time. Where is the switch that turns on the light so I can see? Why do I have a rumbling in my being that is so intense I can’t even put words around what it is because there aren’t any thoughts that are even coherent? What happened to us in this world? What is going on here and why hasn’t this changed?
Do you have a clue? Please write to me and tell me your thoughts. You can post your comments here or go to my website and send me an email.
Blessings!
Laura
Thanks for taking time to read what is here.
http://www.LauraCohnMusic.com
Where Music Meets Artistry
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