New Orleans Can Thrive: How come these mayors always live a continent away from me?

Mayor of Ithaca NY gave up his parking space for community.

What is Lagalou?

Peter Berg from Planet Drum Foundation: "In Ecuador the playing out of social beliefs, intentions and priorities has a different emphasis...Things get done but the society is able to manage without industrial style infrastructures. For lack of an existing term to describe this I offer lagalou." Clearly, Peter sees that warmth and camraderie replace officialdom and frustration. This so describes New Orleans 2005+ that I adopt it as our name: Lagalou New Orleans. Read Berg's letter on this blog by searching term "lagalou" or looking through "Peter Berg" or "lagalou" tags.

last thought....

Where the city stands with the

brawniest breeds of orators

and bards,

Where the city stands that is belov'd

by these, and loves them in return and

understands them,

Where no monument exists to heroes

but in the common words and deeds,

Where thrift is in its place, and

prudence in its place,

Where the men and women think

lightly of the laws,

Where the slave ceases, and the

master of slaves ceases,

Where the populace rise at once

against the never-ending audacity

of elected persons,

Where fierce men and women

pour forth as to the sea

Where outside authority enters

always after the precedence of

inside authority,

Where the citizen is always

the head and ideal, and President,

Mayor, Governor and what not,

are agents for pay,

Where children are taught to be

laws to themselves, and to

depend on themselves,

Where equanimity is illustrated

in affairs,

Where speculations on the soul

are encouraged,

Where woman walk in public

processions in the streets the

same as the men,

Where they enter the public

assembly and take places same as men,

Where the city of the faithfulest friends stands,

Where the city of the cleanliness of the sexes stands,

Where the city of the healthiest fathers stands,

Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands,

There the great city stands.

Walt Whitman, "Song of the Broad-Axe"

New Orleans Can Thrive

How come these mayors always live a continent away from me?

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