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The world is not small. Creativity is plentiful. What could be more inspiring than a world with abundant creativity?

Let’s start with New Orleans and it’s knack for inspiring the masses.

Why would someone want to live in a city ravaged by Katrina?  Why would someone want to live in a city at times is the deadliest in America?  Why would someone want to live in a city with an educational system that just never seems to get out of its hole?  Why would someone want to fall under the umbrella of leadership and a political system that stumbles more often than not?  All very familiar questions. All very familiar questions often asked by many.  Any day and everyday… from common people like you and me.  The locals.  The tourists.  The media.  The naysayers.  The believers.  Familiar questions that have been there since the beginning long before the arrival of a natural disaster.

But if you take a stroll down the aroma filled avenues of the lower Marigny or  along the bead strewn trees of Napoleon or perhaps the Irish Channel, you’ll start to understand why.  You see it’s never been just about the Quarter or 2 1/2 weeks in February.  It’s been and will always be about so much more.  And if you were to stumble upon someone “from there,” you’ll start to hear the  vibrations of words that truly explains it all.

Ask them “why?”  And you might just hear them say “you’ll never understand.”

That’s right. “You’ll never understand.”  You see beyond the layers, beyond all of it is a city that truly has no answers.  Answers are not needed.  And for more reasons than one is the sole reason why people seek haven in this city with so much already against it.  I equate that same city syndrome one gets when living in New York, Chicago, Miami or San Francisco.  Ask someone from those cities and I’m pretty sure the reasons will be plentiful and the living section of resident publications will be flooded with traffic. New Orleans however is different. I’ve lived in some of those cities and I promise you,  New Orleans is indeed just a little bit more different. Something about it that has kept it truly Americana but yet its roots are of Spanish and French influences .  Something that I’m strangely familiar with although I have no roots there.  Something about it that has kept me connected even though I’ve physically only lived there for several years.   Something about it that triggered a probing curiosity stemming from a work visit many years ago although I was trapped in a Holiday Inn.

I can go ahead and start listing even more reasons.  I can rant just a little bit more that would keep the New Orleans tourism board exploding at the seams.  But I won’t.  Because if I did, there still might be the chance… you might just not “understand.”

You see New Orleans will never have its answers. And New Orleans will always have its questions.

New Orleans just wouldn’t want it any other way.
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