This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Posted on September 6, 2022 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

 

“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air—moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh—felt as if it were being exhaled into one’s face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.”

—Tom Robbins

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About Deborah Fagan Carpenter

The creative and professional life of Deborah Fagan Carpenter has taken many directions: visual merchandiser, decorator, potter, sculptor, modern expressionist painter, photographer, and freelance feature writer. As Contributing Editor at PorchScene, her contributions are fueled by her love of all things beautiful, interesting, edible, and Southern.
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One Response to This Week’s Southernism, Tuesday, September 6, 2022

  1. Randall O’Brien says:
    September 6, 2022 at 5:28 PM

    Lyrical perfection!

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