![]() ![]() As I motored in my white station wagon across two-lane highways and over seemingly endless bridges spanning marsh and swampland, those memories propelled me. First on the coattails of Luther Vandross’s “Never Too Much.” It made me want to dance the way Mother and I used to on weekend afternoons, when she’d open the windows on crisp breezy days in particular, back when our seasons made sense, and play the classics, the ones that felt good to your soul. I wanted nothing more than to return to a time when I was either too young to fully comprehend the dangers our planet faces, or before we allowed this nation’s leadership to ridicule the science we should’ve listened to decades ago. I had evacuated ahead of the storm, but when I drove back a few days afterward to assess the damage of my home and check on aging neighbors, it set in that this kind of climate-change-driven anxiety was our new norm. In my case, Hurricane Ida, a Category 4 storm that made landfall in southeastern Louisiana in late August 2021, conjured up a lot of nostalgia. Alongside the debris and muck they stir up, storms have an incredible power to bring a lot of emotions to the forefront.
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