Wednesday, July 12, 2006
NOLA Bible X
40 minutes later, Jesus Bible X strikes up a conversation with me. He is going to Moline.
Where?
Part of the Quad Cities, he says; 300,000 people.
I believe him.
He's got a job interview there. Open position for a Pastor. He's sick of his life in Arizona. The wife agrees.
He asks me questions, we talk about writers, and I fail at communicating anything meaningful.
They both ask a lot about New Orleans once they learn where I grew up.
They care.
It becomes a real conversation.
It comes quickly, naturally - I'm slurring a little from being sleepy, but I understand the universal weight that this subject carries.
New Orleans is a muddy history, an abstraction, a tragedy; it is a name for things with evil names and no names at all.
It is a Tumor that drags along behind me, and people always want to know about it.
I tell them that I do too.
40 minutes later, Jesus Bible X strikes up a conversation with me. He is going to Moline.
Where?
Part of the Quad Cities, he says; 300,000 people.
I believe him.
He's got a job interview there. Open position for a Pastor. He's sick of his life in Arizona. The wife agrees.
He asks me questions, we talk about writers, and I fail at communicating anything meaningful.
They both ask a lot about New Orleans once they learn where I grew up.
They care.
It becomes a real conversation.
It comes quickly, naturally - I'm slurring a little from being sleepy, but I understand the universal weight that this subject carries.
New Orleans is a muddy history, an abstraction, a tragedy; it is a name for things with evil names and no names at all.
It is a Tumor that drags along behind me, and people always want to know about it.
I tell them that I do too.
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