Socca and NAMI Walk

birthday izzy

This was a week of weddings and birthdays, polished off with the finale of the NAMI walk which is probably the best NAMI event in this country, because in New Orleans, there is no walking, there is only second lining. We marched to the Rebirth Brass Band around Audubon park with a miniature army of moody-faced dogs like Charlotte here.

NAMI charlotte

Thank you to all who donated to this cause which is so very important to me and the work I have chosen to do with my life. This year Tulane’s team raised more than it ever has before, nearly double at that! NAMI offers day programs and support groups for persons and families touched by mental illness. We are tragically under-resourced in New Orleans, a city perma-stressed with violence, poverty, post-trauma from hurricanes, anticipatory trauma for hurricanes yet to come. There can be no end to the efforts in the name of mental and spiritual health here. March on. Cook too. For example, this fabulous gluten-free crepe.

socca done

Socca

Adapted from Fromartz’s In Search of the Perfect Loaf

160 g chickpea flour

40 g fine cornmeal flour

430 g water

3 g salt

¾ tsp cumin

4 TB extra virgin olive oil

Mix together all of the ingredients with 3 TB olive oil. Let sit for at least two hours (overnight best). Then heat up a cast iron pan skillet until it is hot hot hot, add 1 TB olive oil and pour enough batter on to coat the circle.

socca

Cook maybe 2 minutes, flip like a crepe, and when both sides are done, serve right away.

socca in pan

I loved mine with Pam’s Pepper Jam!! Oooh ooh ooh.

Happy birthday, David!

birthday david

Haiku #289 October 16th

Rare millennial

who dares not to speak like a

damn Kardashian.

Haiku #290 October 17th

Sometimes I regret

choosing a profession which

requires such thinking.

Haiku #291 October 18th

Sunday pajamas

and wrinkled sheets resting in

a puddle of brain.

Haiku #292 October 19th

Avenue pub, with

balcony seats under dark

umbrellas, not dry.

Haiku #293 October 20th

I am a weather

vane for the discomfort of

others, daily storms.

Haiku #294 October 21st

Coffee darker than

the morning sky into which

it was ground and born.

Haiku #295 October 22nd

To grow is to lose

things: your false self, defenses,

soul-smothering weeds.

Haiku #296 October 23rd

When I get where I’m

going, where we all go, a

Grand Rounds it shall be.

Haiku #297 October 24th

We don’t walk. Here we

march, stomp, second line, pussy

foot for our causes.

One thought on “Socca and NAMI Walk

  1. I’m so glad you could participate in fundraising efforts for NAMI, and in fine New Orleans style no less! 🙂 Haiku #295 captures a lot of the themes of the many beautiful conversations I had with a few SPU friends who were in Minneapolis this past weekend – aaahhh, the joys of getting older, and at least a bit wiser! 🙂

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