I was thinking more of my blessings instead of my problems.

You cannot solve your problems with the same thinking that created them.

It was very unsettling at first, thinking about having to move. But after thinking about it, if that's how it's going to happen, that's fine, it's out of our control.

Underwater, problems have a tendency to compound themselves.

If, coming out of this, ... New Orleans gets to lessen the burden of the social problems that its city and state government are supposed to solve, that would be amazing.

The problem is that you think you have one.