Counting our blessings : New Orleans stories 20 years after Katrina / edited by Carol Bebelle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bebelle, Carol F., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Personal narratives.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

Hurricanes--Social aspects--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Hurricanes.

Disaster victims--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Disaster victims.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

495 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Orleans, Louisiana : University of New Orleans Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Counting Our Blessings is a journey through the lives of 41 New Orleanians in the aftermath of the Katrina disaster. Their experiences and reflections offer a clarifying view of the assistance, promises, faith, relief, opportunities, compassion and empathy that helped to catapult them through the distress to better times. The collection works together to reveal the power of a bitter night in the deepest darkness, and it also teaches us the promise of humanity provoked into action by the sight of our fellow human beings in danger and distress."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Preface / Carol Bebelle aka AKUA

Katrina: a personal odyssey / Orissa Arend

Still, tomorrow comes / Carol Bebelle aka AKUA

This is not that type of storm / Steven Bingler & Linda Usdin

Joy on the horizon / J.B. Borders

What New Orleans has taught me / Andrea Chen

Critical imagination, philanthropy, and disaster : how women on stoops and men on milk crates changed the world / Flozell Daniels Jr. with Pam Jenkins

Love after the storm / Jarvis & Kelly DeBerry

Happenstance / Lloyd Dennis

The calling / Lucas Díaz

On love and leadership / Lamar & Ashleigh Gardere

Right time right place : philanthropy learns to build community / Linetta Gilbert

Sankofa journey continuum / Cherice Harrison-Nelson & Herreast Harrison

Buck it up, buttercup / Sharon Howard

Holding the history of those who died / Pamela Jenkins

Charlie & Louise / Charlie Johnson & Louise Mouton Johnson

Surviving Katrina with Frozine and Auggie Doggie / Chakula cha Jua

From tragedy to transformation : finding purpose in the aftermath of Katrina / Damia Khanboubi

The seeds of strength, courage, and confidence / Dwana Makeba

Jazzman in the storm / Ed Morris

The brighter side of the storm : stories of compassion and courage / Minister Willie Muhammad

Federal flood precipitated by Hurricane Katrina / Jamilah Peters-Muhammad

After the storm : moving forward / Valentine Pierce

Blessings in the midst of the storm and "God is..." / Loyce Pierce Wright

Blessed / Gregory Rattler Sr.

Transcending storms : creating beauty from uncertainty / Asante Salaam

Go biblical / Mathew "Mat" Schwarzman

Acts of kindness / Julie Menhati Singleton

At the water's edge / Nick Slie

The blessing of togetherness / Karel Sloane-Boekbinder

Inside the cone of uncertainty : between the dark & the light / José Torres-Tama

Blessed by God's grace and families' faith / Dwight & Trudell Webster

From New Orleans to Birmingham : a journey of resilience after Hurricane Katrina / Kyshun Webster Sr.

Reflections / MK Wegmann

The financial part / Lynnette White-Colin

My silver lining / Freddi Willians Evans

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1608013030

9781608013036

OCLC:

1534117739