Towards Bright Colors and Plastic Trash
Mardi Gras. I can't comprehensively describe all I experienced during Mardi Gras: parades, glitter, king cake, tailgating, daiquiris, music, costumes, traffic, and more! It's like a combination of Christmas season and football season and the 4th of July and Halloween and Thanksgiving, but with a New Orleanian twist. It is such a huge part of New Orleans. The entire city stops for about a week to celebrate. Because it's such an identifying aspect of the city I live in, I figured I had to write a blog post about it to share with y'all. But what can I say? It was so overwhelming that my brain hasn't even begun to process the experience. Nothing that I can say will fully describe my Mardi Gras experience, simply because there was so much going on! As I reflected, though, I thought through how Mardi Gras relates to every single one of the YAV core tenets. So, that will be my way of sharing with y'all! Simple Living: Mardi Gras felt like the o