Digging weeds in my New Orleans garden deeply rooted interloper cones up with a tank dangling from roots a section of gold chain bracelet, necklace? three years after Hurricane Katrina newly purchased home I was a transplant having come to help with regional revovery It…

Buried deep beneath the earth evidence of love, death, birth. Remnants of a time long past have seen the light of day at last. Such treasures hold our memories. A history planted with the trees. Roots of family life lived well. Stories that these items…