It has been a long time since I last wrote and I have to say that my fingers feel rusty. I kicked ass this semester and now I return to work for the summer full time fighting the male oppressor. I am trying to avoid conversations that argue who will win this season's American Idol, whether Martha Stewart deserves another trial or why on earth Jessica Simpson's sister is getting her own record deal. Although I do have to say that this is the lowest form of nepotism I have ever encountered. One Simpson was enough, thank you.

I am focusing my summer on personal empowerment. Taking my life back. Taking my country back. Taking it all and making it mine. Becoming whole again. As a person and as a country. It is something that we don't think about a lot. We see the government or even our relationships as something we don't have to take a full active participation in. I have to be honest. I was more than content for much of my life to flip a coin or let someone else make the decisions for me. It was easier not to have to be responsible and to make the hard choices. I am not alone. Many people are ambivalent about voting and about protesting the government. Let someone else take care of it and we can worry about our mortgage and buying a hummer. Then we are at war. The environment is for shit, the economy is the worst its been since the depression and we look at the t.v. and wonder what country they are talking about, this isn't the America that we love, that we celebrate the birth of on the fourth of July.

But it is. Now is the time for waking up on a grand scale. It has to start with baby steps though. There will be more to come...

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