Mardi Gras Celebrations In New Orleans-2006:

February 28-2006:


The Mardi-Gras Celebrations In New Orleans-2006.

Six months after the Katrina hurricane disaster in New Orleans & Mississippi, the traditional Mardi-Gras local celebrations of music, partying, float parades, and tourists, continues in New Orleans. The Major claims that it is therapeutic for the city, and is also a statement to the world that this city is not dead. It still lives, and will recover a new life similar, or almost similar to the one lost during the hurricane.

People deal with pain and loss differently, every individual has to find his of her own way to accept and deal with the pain of loss. And the city of New Orleans deals with it's pain and loss, by doing what it does best. Celebrating Mardi-Gras is just another way to continue doing so, and to bring in much needed funds that this celebration accrues, from the tourists that visit here at this time.

Some of us may wonder where is the rationale for all this revelry, when thousands are still without homes, have been re-located to other states, and the possibility of getting those people back into the city again is very slim. Because there is not much infrastructural development done as yet, to warrant a return of it's citizenry. Whatever adverse feelings some may have, several residents, including the Mayor feels, that the show must go on, because the citizens expect it to continue, the tourists expect to celebrate with us as usual, and they bring in much needed revenue to the city.

Happy Mardi-Gras new Orleans, and I sincerely hope come next year-2007, New Orleans would have rekindled the light it once shone so brightly, prior to Hurricane Katrina.

Om Shanti.

Derryck S. Griffith.
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