Folks say that only the people who were born into the Carnival Class have been dealt a lucky hand in life. The rest of us get by, feeling free. Uptown or Downtown, living in New Orleans is a nice way to be. Free New Orleans.
Most of us rather like it. It's a living. The whole year revolves around Mardi Gras. Most people belong to some kind of a krewe.
Life is what you make it in New Orleans. If you can't fall in love with New Orleans, you have a heart more shriveled than the Grinch's.
Even a peg-legged hunchback with one eye and an ugly scar across his or her kisser can find love in New Orleans. Every memory in New Orleans is priceless. When you have a song in your heart, it is who you are, inside, that matters. New Orleans brings out the best in everyone.
Better one day in New Orleans than a year as a sheep. Free New Orleans.
Set yourself free in New Orleans. The alligator lies down with the pelican in the middle of City Park. You will never see a skinny pigeon in New Orleans, or a skinny crow. You will never see a skinny rat in the French Quarter, either. There isn't one skinny experience in New Orleans. The food is too good. The culture is too rich.
When somebody is cooking Creole, they rely on the Trinity: onion, celery, bell pepper. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. You can fiddle with tradition in New Orleans but don't mess with it. Everything Creole starts with the Trinity. That is what makes it Creole.
I love Viet-Creole.
What's a person to do in New Orleans during the coronavirus pandemic? The only reasonable option is to make the most of it.
All the evidence I see is that people are making the most of their time. No one is busy but no one is idle, either. Everyone is being a real New Orleanian, true black and gold. New Orleans strong. Who dat!?!
The buses and the street cars continue to run on time. Life moves at its own New Orleans pace.
Nobody can put a price on happiness, even if bar owners try to do just that on Bourbon Street.
No cover doesn't mean no rules. Some people take "do whatcha wanna" too literally. All they can think of is where they are so that they forget who they are. Be your best self in New Orleans.
Free New Orleans means free to be you and me. Be your best self in New Orleans. You know you want to. You belong here.
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