Flashback: Day of the Dead 2005

My reactions to the Mexican holiday when I was a Katrina refugee

This was written in 2005 for my personal blog. I was in the middle of an extended stay in San Francisco, a Katrina refugee. But the care and sympathy shown by the community back then still sticks with me. I share this 20 years on and the emotions are still strong:

Walking through the streets of San Francisco on any normal day, evidence of the hidden subc…