When New Orleans natives leave home, people say, sooner or later, like homing pigeons, they find their way back. For me it was both sooner and later. My “sooner” was after a 5 ½ year odyssey through 32 countries which drastically changed my view of the world and of myself. For my homecoming in 1973 the physical landscape of the city hadn’t changed so much. I did see it with different eyes though, briefly, before moving to California, back to New Orleans for two years, then to