BRIDGERTON Star Nicola Coughlan for TEEN VOGUE Magazine
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In her cover story with TEEN VOGUE, Nicole Coughlan shares what it feels
like to finally be the main character. She also discusses her activism,
working ...
Mar 27, 2006
So Lao-Tzu, Buddha and Christ go to the Westbank, you see, and Lao Tzu says...
On the way home, just past the broken, lonely hull of an abandoned Walmart (site of a
fierce gun battle during Katrina), just off the highway, in the middle of strip mall suburbia, I saw the glimmer of what looked like nothing less than a castle from a Chinese fairy tale.
I'd glimpsed this mirage once before, about a year ago, looming up behind a line of ragged trees. Then it disappeared. I never did see it again. I convinced myself that I had hallucinated the whole thing and forgot about it. Unitl today.
Now, however, the trees have been cleared a bit more, due to the storm, and the view is better. Today, with it clearly in my sight, I drove down a little bit, and there is was.
Sitting there, the most incongruous thing you can imagine, in the middle of a few suburban track houses, a few trailers, nestled in the cypresses and milkweed was a flamboyantly ornate Cao Dai-ist temple.
(Cao Dai-ism, so I've learned from my Vietnamese friend/hairdresser Ha, is a strange Buddhist/Christian/Taoist sect originating in Vietnam.)
For whatever reason, they've erected a version of the temple above just off the highway in Harvey, Louisiana.
(Don't tell anyone, but sometimes I actually love the Westbank.)
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Nice! Where you get this guestbook? I want the same script.. Awesome content. thankyou.
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