so the roadtrip was amazing. started out in chicago (i flew from philly with my mom and stepdad) and stayed in wheaton IL for 4 days for a family reunion. the reunion was great, but i don't think i'll write about it right now because that's a whole other story...

my ride picked me up in wheaton on July 5, and we drove across the rest of Illinois, ( Read more... )

the more i travel, the more i realize i should stay in one place. have a more tangible community. it's nice to know people in a lot of places, but i don't want to be known as one of those people who just comes once in a while and just hangs out briefly, just enough time to catch up and that's it. how can i move forward if i'm always catching up? i ( Read more... )

losing touch with myself ( Read more... )

copied from infoshop news. (news.infoshop.org ( Read more... )

it started with a lunar eclipse at midnight. we went to the st. roch cemetery, heard the sound of a nearby freight train and the echoes of my bicycle chain as we looked for the perfect place to lay down on the concrete, between aboveground graves.


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you don't do time. time does you.
leonard peltier

i recommend reading this interview with my friend Shana if you want to know anything about what's going on in new orleans from a racial, feminist perspective:

http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2006/01/6740.php

i use to have such a hard time standing up for myself. i used to be really quiet in meetings. even if i felt really strongly about something, i'd be afraid to speak up, and then i'd get frustrated when certain things didn't happen because i didn't say anything, or other people would say things that i had been thinking about for a long time. and i'd ( Read more... )

so we just finalized our plans, we're leaving on monday, and i'm fucking excited. it'll be me, ted, and genevieve in ted's little saturn. i don't know how to drive stickshift, and genevieve doesn't drive at all, so ted will be driving the whole way. it's a 24 hour drive (total travel time) and we're going to stop in Asheville, which is pretty much ( Read more... )

so i haven't been writing much on here lately, although that doesn't mean i haven't been writing a lot in general. i was in new orleans for 4 weeks, i'm currently back in the philly area to be with my family for the holidays, and i'm going back down south the day after christmas. my mind has been all over the place, but in a good way. having a lot ( Read more... )