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1/4/2009
3:00:00 pm EST
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Mother's Colorful Memorial To Her Son Has Both Fans And Critics
Author: Katy Reckdahl, The Times-Picayune Source: NOLA (LA)
Title: MOTHER'S COLORFUL MEMORIAL TO HER SON HAS BOTH FANS AND CRITICS
As the coroner zipped her son into a body bag, Susan "Willow" Schroeder looked at his blood on the concrete next to her home. She saw colors, all sorts of them, and resolved to replace the gruesome stain with something beautiful.
So she began to paint.
That night, near the door to his apartment, she wrote, "Heart of my heart, love will never die." The next morning, over the bloodstain in front of the door, she painted an angel.
Overcome with grief, she rarely ventured out, becoming a recluse of sorts in her Bayou St. John home.
"Many times, I thought I would move," she said. "But while I painted, my mind was lifted from grief."
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| New Orleans Is A Really Crappy Place... | Jan 5th. at 9:43:55 pm EST
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Mysteries Child (Garfield, Arkansas) - Email Me
...for someone who would, seemingly, be much happier as Homeowner's Association President.
Of course, moving to the environment for which we are best suited really isn't a material possibility for most of us; we must figure out a way to bloom where we have landed.
It is often said that one person's rights stop at another person's nose (eyes, door, personal tastes) .
I wonder how we're going to learn to deal with the fact that there is always, inevitably, something about everyone's life, and self, that someone else hates.
I have 10 cats. My sainted grandmother, and her sacrosanct zoophobia, won't be invited down for a visit.
I don't think that solution's going to work for society at large. Since I don't care for the idea of learning to think of myself as "X of 305,560,230ish". Or "X of 6,751,928,013ish," either.
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| Methinks She Does Not Care | Jan 5th. at 2:17:07 pm EST
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Shadowbear (Hillsboro, Oregon) - Email Me
about the sidewalk. Ms Taylor is really objecting to the lesbian couple in her neighborhood, she is way more upset than painting would allow for.
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| Interesting That Her Other Neighbors Are Ok W/ It | Jan 5th. at 1:02:42 pm EST
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Okami Myrrhibis (Woodbridge, Virginia) - Email Me
Only the one next-door, who sounds like a relative new-comer, has issues.
And I too, find it ironic that post-Katrina, the city would spend tax$ to "fix" this issue vs sidewalks that aren't whole/safe, such as another on the same block.
Very sad what happened - but that neighborhood children are also having an outlet for their grief for lost siblings, and others find it uplifting - methinks it'll go to a town-meeting, and there will be more support than condemnation.
Just a pity Ms. Taylor has nothing better to bitch about, especially post-Katrina
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| There's Always At Least One... | Jan 5th. at 9:37:42 am EST
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bigcat (peoria, Illinois) - Email Me
spoilsport who doesn't believe in freedom of expression, unless it's her own, sort of like the Sour Kangaroo in the Horton tale. This is a type of person eager to express her tyranny toward anyone they dislike for some reason.
In the case of the city sidewalk, I'd go ahead and paint the thing gray, then get a case or two of colorful sidewalk chalk and redo it, the more garish the better. While rain would wash it away,it would only freshen my sidewalk canvas for a fresh image. I would then take pictures of my finished work, so that I could complete a whole different memorial.
The moment Ms Taylor decided to use the garden hose-then i would switch back to paint, and not gray paint either.
Everyone pays lip service to freedom of expression, but it's only the brave souls who act on it, then get censured for it because it isn't really all that tolerated by the overly comfortable status quo.
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| And This Comment Says It All | Jan 5th. at 5:37:37 am EST
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stalkingwolf (Bullhead City, Arizona) - Email Me
""Pass by after dark, and you'll see. With all those blue lights, it looks like a witch's house," Gregory Taylor said."
With that comment the neighbor moved this from a domain issue
directly into a first amendment issue, with discriminatory practices thrown in for flavor.
The local ACLU should now be all over this like buzzards on a gut wagon.
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| New Orleans At It's Best | Jan 4th. at 11:05:50 pm EST
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Sprites (Houston, Texas) - Email Me
That's what I miss about living in neighborhoods without home owners associations, freedom of expression.
Ms. Taylor reminds me of the folks who lived in French Quarter in the 90's, complaining that it was a noisy area!!! Ms. Schroeder has found a way to express her grief in a way that has helped many in her neighborhood achieve peace of their own. If only more people could do that....
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