Yet another semester begins!
I am terrified and excited.
I have strength and energy and curiosity
and I want to absorb it all.

I’d like to take Lawrenceville and ring it out like a towel this semester. I want to live up and down it until I can memorize every detail of its alleys and door planes.

And I want to see what it’s like again. To say it is okay even though I am going away
(as I will always be planning to be going away)
and to let what will be just happen.


I’m going into it as a big, brave dog because I am going to be rejected a lot, but I cannot lose the big picture – that I’m pursuing this because I want to have a voice and I don’t want to sit at home as I did for a year and think about all the things I wish I could be doing. Because this is my chance to talk…a lot…and be heard by people who have been in my shoes.

It bothered me last semester that I felt like I was not doing anything but learning for myself so I have signed up to volunteer with Global Links. Simple solutions can start at home (or literally a few blocks from my home here, by Friendship park). I want to maintain connected with the micro-perspective even if I work at the macro-level. I never want to lose this as I feel like most policy makers do…

And I want to be sleepy because I have class in six hours.