Shards

If one dropped a mirror to find that 75% of the pieces were faced upward, there would be enough in the reflection to see the whole.

One of every four people displaced by Hurricane Katrina--and it's likely, more--have yet to return.

The connectivity of the Crescent City is a South-hewn spirit of resilience that has kept the city’s rhythm moving it along, getting back onto its toe-tapping feet, tapping into the will to move things along.

Some survivors live in scarred and broken homes that don’ t have hot water, awaiting judgements and checks to rebuild the physical remnants of what was.

Unlike the mirror, half a decade after the storm, New Orleans is coming together.

New Orleans is there, looking up, and worthy of a good, long look.