Chalk it up to the infinite wisdom that you receive in daily life
Today we all three came out of the house to remove the last traces of Mardi Gras – Roy was on his side cutting down the big grass and almost fell in a sink hole in his neighbor’s yard. Jerri was pulling the beads off her wrought iron fence, emptying out the keg in my neighbors drain, and returning pieces of costumes, and I was throwing away beads, removing the spears, and chucking the yellow feathers from Loca sucking the Mardi Gras boa into her kennel and carefully plucking the yellow part till it was almost bare.
Mom said the whole city was recovering from a Mardi Gras hangover. I backed up the truck and turned the stereo on and danced to “Eres Para Mi” and “I Second That Emotion” and “For Once in My Life” – all while the sun is shining, the pelicans are soaring, and life here in the neighborhood returns to some semblance of our normal.