Prerequisite

Loving a place as wild as the Prairie des Femmes, even having the eye to see her, took some prerequisites, and I was lucky to have nearly taken them all, being an eleve of la Paroisse Evangeline. I knew what it was to live within a forgotten matriarchy. What it was to love a place despite its flaws, to subscribe to the myth despite the reality. I was able to understand the cruel beauty of life in South Louisiana and what it meant to stay in this place. 

Our Lady tonight wears a multicolored mantle, a misty golden pearl in her indigo robes.

2014