Yesterday for Lundi Gras and today, in honor of Mardi Gras, I wear my beads with pride.
I had millions of throws left over from my three years celebrating in the Vieux Carré. I used many to fill glass-bottomed lamps, a decorating tip that would make Martha Stewart proud. I have only one such lamp left.
I kept my largest white beads and use them now to decorate my Christmas Tree each year as a garland.
And I kept my four favorite throws that I received...and I never had to demonstrate any indecency to receive them. Each were given to me, the best ones of the four put over my head at the St. Ann Drag Parade that occurs each year around noon by a man wearing nothing but a few strategically-placed green, gold and purple feathers...and a mask.
So let's all dance another Second Line in honor, please.
Laisses le bons temps roulle!
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Gosh that sounds like fun. yes. yes it does.
ResponderEliminarHi, Z:
ResponderEliminarIt was fun...most of it. My first Lundi Gras, I lived two blocks off the Quarter on Barracks St., same side as what the locals called "Louis Armed-and-Strong Park"...for a reason. I heard the gunshots ring out, two of them, nextdoor. I was finishing a 15 page study for a Spanish lit course so I had to be at home that day. I heard on the news that my nextdoor neighbor had a heated argument with his drunk "best friend" who took out a gun and shot him to death.
It was hard not to think about that at Mardi Gras the next day.
Fortunately, my next two Mardi Gras were much more enjoyable; I met a neat couple who lived right around the corner from one of the most happening bars on Bourbon Street, so I got to experience what they always said was a "True N'awlinean" Mardi Gras, very family-oriented, where you could go out and walk around, then come back and have more to eat and relax and be with "family", then go back out again. It was really nice, and very heart warming. I will never forget their kindness.
Boy, that alone could have been a post...
Be well, Z.
Post it. :)
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