(Here is a Picture of my so called friend Cheryl Hilton)
Well folks...so sorry for not keeping' yawl abreast of what has been going on.
As you can tell by the last response I got from my last posting...i sort of didn't want to blog anymore. But then I though...what the hell.
I'm not sure what was up YOUR ASS CHERYL HILTON, AKA THATCHEZGIRL@yahoo.com, but dammit...I sure didn't expect you to like slap me in the face when I paid you a complement. Your comment from the last blog was unacceptable and uncalled for...all i can think of is the fact that you are not happy with you and have this need to rain on other's parade man...well just keep your toxic rain over there along with your negativity.
From the sounds of what you say, Mazatlan, Mex is were you are needed to do your life's work in order to make YOU feel better and to insure that you have a good clientele for your hair cutting expertize...so all in all the good you do is only for you in the end right? yes you may find homes for some of these guys and do what you can only one day a week. Humph...one day a week. Yep, you are doing a lot and making them changes.
That is why when we were there, we still seen so much sadness and poverty. Heard folks like you who moved to Mexico to save a buck and live it up without the stress of the American Politics etc...
Yawl move on down and hire the locals to clean your home for like two fucken bucks a week and feel that you are helping out folks who need the help? feel it is improper to either over tip them or give them a few extra bucks because well then...." they will expect it all the time"...
Ya like you wouldn't expect a tip for cutting someone's hair or even being told you are doing a good job etc.... you have no idea do you.
Were are your fucken priorities?,you call yourself a good person.
A smart person, well. I'm sorry, your words and comments just proved otherwise and I do not need such individuals in my life. My life is so full of stress without the need of it coming from a negative source "just because" type shit.
You have under estimated me one too many times, making me feel as if I were some type of ass. You are wrong.
You have no idea about me and what I have and have not done in this life time.
You have never once walked in my shoes. Who gives a shit that you were stuck in Florida during Katrina and couldn't move because you had hip surgery.
Now just what the hell makes you any better then all the rest of us? what because you had hip surgery? or because you were just so fucken unhappy with were you were in life and what you wanted that caused you to make the move and talk shit about American politics and how you are better and smarter then that.
Yet you are still an American Citizen.
You live for praise and for approval, I don't. I live for me.
Why the hell don't all yawl "gringo's" with an attitude.
Who have moved down there give up your American Status? is it because you may lose your retirement funds or social security benefits that you get from the United States, or what? you can talk all the shit you want, but I see that you never seem to walk the walk.
So give it up already with your being stuck in bed and not being able to leave as a comparison to going through Katrina. Poor you.
You still got out and made it OK...it wasn't heading' for ya any way all thought yawl did get some back wash so to speak...
Now think about all my neighbors,animals and friends who had no way out of New Orleans. Folks who didn't' own cars or couldn't afford to due to the large amounts of city taxes that we must pay in order to own a car.
So we all do what we can to get by...taking' the bus or walking. Most folks have taken to walking and saving the buck.
Here in New Orleans, even in the worst of neighborhoods.
We all keep our buildings and neighborhoods clean. We may not like one another all the time, but baby we have respect for each other and live and let live man.
We bond as a family and party as the best of friends. We are open, we are accepting, we are folks with self respect and pride in our homes and our country...well at least for the most part any way...
Shit, most folks that you seen on t.v. that you thought were just "dumb, stupid folk for not leavin'...well...think about their options. They had no choice.
Yes our Mayor Mr. Willy Wonka and his Umpa's said they would help and pick up folks. They just didn't tell them that they couldn't take their pet's...they also couldn't leave once they were in that stadium, there was no food for them, no preparations for them, no medical, no water...no basics that they needed and were told they would have...Our Government may have fucked up with us, our Mayor as well...but man.
We sure do try to hang on and take care of our own knowing full well that we are all we have and there is no government to cover your back.
You see, folks like you can say all you want to other's and insult them.
Say what you feel to try to change them etc....doesn't mean we shall follow suit.
Now you need to be concerned with your own business and leave mine alone.
Leave my city, my people and my friends and family down here alone unless you come to either help to help and not just to make you look good....or you just keep on keepin' on in your place of comfort man and keep on truckin' cause we don't need any added shit onto our streets....we already have skid marks from Nagin thank you.
Now in continuing my story as I do get off track alot...like i care....
I also had surgery right before the storm at Baptist Memorial Hospital. I was released with more morphine then what I needed man to keep me from feeling' the pain because I refused to stay in that hospital.
Yes, I too had trouble walking. I two was in a position of UN comfort, being scared etc...having no fucken car to leave..one fucken arm to use, a fucked up spine, mobility problems and such...but my ass took that fucken sling off and went door to door to see whom I can help get ready for the storm and to see if anyone of my elderly neighbors would leave and go some place safe man.
I didn't lay back and cry helplessly and I understand you were unable to move.
So like you have put it to me...."were there is a will there is a way".
It is funny and yet so sad to see when folks become so self absorbed and feel that they are the important ones. The only ones that count and the only ones that know better...all of you guys fall hard and fast. Hope you have a safety net.
Sounds like you will be needing one.
So in closing to you...my very public comment to what you had to say goes as followed...and for anyone who reads this and has no idea why I have a few hairs out of place...read the last blog and the comment to follow from "my friend Cheryl" and add on to that with your own...oh hell...I don't know what I'm saying because as she said...my blog sucks nobody reads it and I need to get a life.
So before my dumb nawlin' ass gets ready to run and jump man....I have this to say then I'm outta here.
I didn't give up on my home and friends and blow the good ol' US of A.
I stayed as a matter of fact I returned to my place I call home and have been helping do what ever I can to the best of my abilities considering the fact that I am disabled.
Let's see. I have already got most of my veggie garden going...which means that once it takes and we know the soil is not too contaminated etc..we shall start on John's yard. My neighbor.
But first he needs to get his trailer removed...funny...FEMA seems to be taking their time on that one, when they went ahead and kicked folks out who had not place to go...and yet just leave the damn trailer on John's property like nobodies business man when he doesn't need it and can't get his back yard cleaned until that damn thing is moved!
You see in John's yard he will be growing things that we don't have...etc...and so will my neighbor Gilbert and his family...and so on...this way once things are in full bloom we are all going to pack up baskets and leave them on our neighbors steps to try to get them to do the same. This way we have a neighborhood that is self sufficient when it comes to be family and neighborly...we can at least start taking care of each other like we use to do. Like one big family. One big Village, just raising our children and doing what we can to help one another and survive like a community should.
I have also been in the works with talks concerning our recycling habits man.
Not good. Well I can't say too much for here because we want too, but we have no facilities close enough etc...
so folks don't think for one second that just because I blog and bitch, that I am not out there doing something for myself and my neighbors as well as communities.
Thank you Iams for sending me all those food coupons to feed the feralbabies left over from the storm, and for all the free food You have sent to help out...
Thank you friendly neighbor Jon for the use of your car to run these babies back and fourth to the vet.
Thank you to all for helping, showing, growing and learning in all sorts of ways.
For all you have done to help out my city hope.
For we are more then just the "French Quarter".
We are swamps,Parks, cities, and communities.
We are families, we are history in the making...we are people who care and who want to continue to live our lives in the swamps, in the countries, the small towns and big cities of our beautiful state of Louisiana and our city of New Orleans.
I'm not sure when I shall get around to posting another update etc...I have been pretty sick and it has been hard for me to walk non the less eat any food.
So my butt has lost about ten pounds. Guess I had better git to eating' man..and hope that I can avoid the knife this time. Man I hate going to the doctor.
You have no idea what I have to go through with this damn rsds, it is no fun.
So far it has effected my walking ( balance is off at times ) , my skin causing me more rashes then you would find on a babies ass...yuck...
man the list goes on but why complain...I'm just going to go on and light up and keep on trolling' as we all say...and try to avoid the damn doc's at all cost...
Oh and Cheryl....take a better look at the picture slid show.
Look at what you see in those images and if you dare say get over it..you are an ass.
A lot of areas still look like that. WE are not getting the money we were promised by the Government to rebuild.
A lot of areas are having to go through more red tape then ever before just to rebuild.
Only because the city's Mayor Willy Wonka has plans for those area's and he has now for like five to six damn years.
He wants to take over that whole strip of the lower 9Th ward and sell it off to investors so that the entire area has hotels.. Condo's..tour boats...more mall's etc...
Ya that is all good and plenty, but what about the folks who own land there and want to be back home that are being held up with rebuilding. Getting no financial help and getting screwed by bad contractors that the city doesn't seem to be wanting to do shit about..
Now yawl know that most of the records for this land was destroyed...and man is the city taking advantage of folks. They are stripping them of their property saying they abandon it...ya like they have been trying to rebuild since the storm and the city is what has held them up to the point of last minute and before you know it the city has that property.
In a lot of those area's there still is no running water....hell by one area of the lower 9Th ward the water still seeps under the levee wall and onto the land...ya that is what we call protection man by our lovely Army Corps of Engineers and our Government..fuckers.
Now the Lower 9Th ward is only one of the area's that everyone hears about.
You need to check out other areas like St.Bernard Parish, Lakeview, Gentilly, and you will see the same amount of progress. Folks down here are not getting the money or the help that everyone has been told they are getting.
Not to mention all the bad contractors out there taking advantage of folks. Yep that is still the big thing down here.
I'm sure a lot of folks are wondering why the hell don't they just leave and move some were else and make it easy on themselves?
It is harder then what you think.
These folks worked for that home, they worked so hard and been through so much, they have stained hearts man.
All that history, good and bad.
Some folks have homes that have been in their families for hundreds of years, and many of them are losing those homes to the government.
Why? lost and destroyed paper work due to katrina.
Now because of the lack of documentation...the homes that have been in a lot of these families for a hundred years or more...are being taken away due to lack of proff. That's our government for you all right.
when it comes to the homes in all of those old area's...you see, the French Quarter may have the old buildings and such and the so called charm..
but yawl ain't' seen nothing until you have seen some of these old homes that are more beautiful then Scarlet O'Hara' home in Gone with the wind man....
And they ain't in the Quarter either!
OK...time to take my dogie out and feeds the birds...they are giving me a head ache with all the pecking' at my window.
love, peace and light always.
Tree ~ `Usti-`itlv-`gv.
Ps...'hola brother John and sis in law Jessie.
I love you guys and miss you dearly..and man I love your kids...they rock man. They are the bomb.
I have never in my life seen children grow up so unselfish, so accepting and caring and with such good nature and common sence. You both did a wonderful job with your children and you should be proud of that.
Just don't forget to let your children know how proud you are of them.
Also Jessie man...take care of yourself. You are an important part of our life and your own childrens' life. They count on you to be there for them.
I know it is hard and something that sometimes never heals which is the loss of a child. But please know in your heart that he is always there to guide and shine upon you now, and would want nothing more then to see his mamma happy and his brother's and sisters all glowing in all the best ways. He already know's his father is strong and will always hold him dear to his heart without braking the rest down.
Now it is your turn.
I love you.
May you always find peace in your city, peace in your village and peace in your home so that you can find peace in your soul.
Therese
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