Friday, September 02, 2005
Sometimes a Great Notion
A hat tip to Charlotte over at Berkeley Farm Girl for a really good flood aid idea...wouldn't it be cool if cities around the United States held jazz funerals, paired with Louisiana-style food events, to commemorate the dead and raise money for relief efforts? Apart from the fundraising aspect, I also like the imagery of starting out slow and sad, mourning the death and loss, but going out on a positive, up-tempo note. I like this.
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Interesting. i appreciate what you're doing here. :)
I think that you usually have wonderful ideas, but I really don't like this one. The funeral idea is a little tacky, even if it is a jazz funeral. And the Louisiana-style food...well, if people did that now, it would ultimately hurt the economy of the state. Most of the traditional Louisiana seafood available in the country right now is from Asia, as crawfish are out of season, and catfish and shrimp fishing were decimated by the hurricane. Rice farmers are taking a hit as well.
This might be an OK idea in six months or so, but right now the state's economy is going to have a hard enough time recovering.
As the person who came up with the idea, I'd agree that right now is not the time.
Charlotte, great minds think alike...my local public radio station, which broadcasts an excellent jazz/swing/blues program on Saturdays, devoted the whole show today to a variety of music from Louisiana and the whole Delta region, with intermittent messages encouraging listeners to send relief money, and providing information for doing that. I love my public radio station! (WCMU-FM, Mt. Pleasant)
Offering a thanksgiving, for a friend whom I just learned SURVIVED (despite going through Katrina's worst)
God is good! :-D
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