Thursday, November 2nd
Yesterday I took some down time. My hands have been getting more and more numb-now during the day as well. I decided to seek out some help. Common Ground-another organization-has a free health clinic for volunteers and Katrina victims. A sect of that is a group of volunteer alternative medicine professionals. The recommended an accupunturist who offers accupunture those those suffering from depression and stress. I called him and explained my past injury and my current symptoms. I went to his office located near Tulane. Beautiful area of New Orleans and on the bus I started to find the desire and courage to do some more exploring during my time off here.
He must have put 60 needles in me-I feel much better today. He told me to take at least a week off of hard physical activity. Also, he told me a little about his story. He moved to New Orleans one month before Katrina. He lost everything and moved to Texas for 6 months. When he returned he worked as a volunteer, mainly treated people who were physically and spiritually disabled post Katrina. After 6 months he opened his own office to make a living but still goes to the jazz church on Wednesday evening to do free work. I will be seeing him two more times in the next week.
So, today I asked to be "volunteer for a day". Basically that involves taking their nice camera, going out with a crew and take pics of all that volunteers do. These pictures become part of brochures and the website. It was weird to not participate in the gutting of the house-I really wanted to jump in. On the other hand I really love taking pictures, especially with a good camera. I took a different angle than I would if I were doing it for my blog. After all, this is pics to promote volunteering, not a direction of what I see that is hard to look at and sometimes beautiful.
Tonight I will audition for the lead role in the musical "Tyvec" that a few volunteers wrote this week. Friday night we will have a talent/no talent show...However I may pass on that and go to an art Gallery with a friend of Jenny's.
Just to get out of here for a night without the volunteers would be a treat.
Watching the team work on gutting this apartment was amazing-they work so hard and in silence as everyone just jumps in and gets the job done. It's exhausting work and the motto is, "Get 'er done". We went to lunch at Voodoo BBQ. Amazing food. I had a Caribbean jerk chicken po boy with spicy greens.
I'm about to jump into the kitten and capture some of the preparation for dinner. Then go back to the gut site to get the shots of the finished gut.
He must have put 60 needles in me-I feel much better today. He told me to take at least a week off of hard physical activity. Also, he told me a little about his story. He moved to New Orleans one month before Katrina. He lost everything and moved to Texas for 6 months. When he returned he worked as a volunteer, mainly treated people who were physically and spiritually disabled post Katrina. After 6 months he opened his own office to make a living but still goes to the jazz church on Wednesday evening to do free work. I will be seeing him two more times in the next week.
So, today I asked to be "volunteer for a day". Basically that involves taking their nice camera, going out with a crew and take pics of all that volunteers do. These pictures become part of brochures and the website. It was weird to not participate in the gutting of the house-I really wanted to jump in. On the other hand I really love taking pictures, especially with a good camera. I took a different angle than I would if I were doing it for my blog. After all, this is pics to promote volunteering, not a direction of what I see that is hard to look at and sometimes beautiful.
Tonight I will audition for the lead role in the musical "Tyvec" that a few volunteers wrote this week. Friday night we will have a talent/no talent show...However I may pass on that and go to an art Gallery with a friend of Jenny's.
Just to get out of here for a night without the volunteers would be a treat.
Watching the team work on gutting this apartment was amazing-they work so hard and in silence as everyone just jumps in and gets the job done. It's exhausting work and the motto is, "Get 'er done". We went to lunch at Voodoo BBQ. Amazing food. I had a Caribbean jerk chicken po boy with spicy greens.
I'm about to jump into the kitten and capture some of the preparation for dinner. Then go back to the gut site to get the shots of the finished gut.
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