Pick Yourself Up In New Orleans

New Orleans is a hard habit to kick.  Once you've got New Orleans under your skin, you've got to come back to scratch an itch that can't be satisfied anywhere else.  Some people have New Orleans in their blood.  Some people live in a New Orleans state of mind.  They are all lucky people.  I know.  I'm one of them---aaaaand---I live in New Orleans, too.

Your humble narrator.

Ink-a-dink-a-doo.  Fiddle-dee-dee.  

The stars are reflected in the wakes of the barges that head up and down the Mississippi River in front of the French Quarter.  Fortune tellers crowd Jackson Square in front of St. Louis Cathedral----even at 3:00AM.  When the sun rises, New Orleans is all aglow; the white herons are tinted pink as the clouds before anyone but beignet cooks are awake.  New Orleans is a city of details.  New Orleans is a city of light.  

When I want to be happy I close my eyes and I think of New Orleans.  Then, I open my eyes and I am already here.  You belong in New Orleans, too, if only for a week.  One week in New Orleans is better than one month anywhere else.

New Orleans is a tonic.  It's a spritzer.  It's a pick-me-up.   

In a New Orleans state of mind, there are no strangers; there are only friends you haven't yet met.  In a New Orleans state of mind, three 25-cent martinis are enough for one person over the course of a three-course lunch.  In a New Orleans state of mind, beads sparkle dangling off the branches of every tree, so pretty.  In a New Orleans state of mind, sno-balls are something you eat, not that you throw.  In a real New Orleans state of mind, you'll feel like you belong here.  Why?  Because you do belong here.

New Orleans is calling you.

Kitty-Kat knows you belong here.

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