02Listen to the MUSN’TS
Listen to the MUSN’TS, child
Listen to the DON’TS
Listen to the IMPOSSIBLES, the WON’TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me -
Anything can happen, child
ANYTHING can be.
—Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
High & Low
Week high: I’ve started packing and moving into a new (and bigger) apartment! :)
Week low: I’m starting to feel sick. :(
I still consider the score to be a positive!
Eve got me back on my soapbox. Nothing like some good ole’ feminism to start up a good rant.
If you haven’t heard about her yet, Eve Ensler is the matriarch of the V-Day movement. She’s the boss lady, the goddess, the creator of the Vagina Monologues and has many followers, including myself. She is a little loony, but she is passionate. She won’t stop until the violence stops. Neither will I.
Like Eve, I get sick when I think about the idiot, disgusting, shameful, heart-wrenching (the list could go on and on) acts against women overseas and in the United States. There are awful things going on all over the world, but why does the violence have to start with women? We are resources for the future - without us, literally and biologically, the human race cannot continue. Unfortunately, these horrible conditions are nothing new. They are centuries-old practices, beliefs, and religious customs. Check your history books - the cycle is not easily broken.
I have five life goals. One of them is to open a sheltered for women escaping domestic violence. I feel compelled to do something about the status of women. (Now comes my alter call…) You should be compelled to do something, say something, think something, feel something.
My Morning Soundtrack
Mornings would be better if they always started with the sounds of U2’s Joshua Tree.
So I was at the movie theater tonight waiting on The Killers to start, and the following conversation occurred:
The trailer for Eclipse comes on.
Andrea: (dead serious) There are wolves in this movie?
Me: (shuns repeatedly, shakes head) YEAH. They’re WEREWOLVES. Where have you been?
Haha :) I laugh at this conversation for two reasons: 1) that Andrea didn’t know that Jacob (Taylor Lautner) is a werewolf in the Twilight series and 2) the fact that I got so bent out of shape that she DIDN’T know this bit of information.
“Like a family victimized by homicide, Indians may never experience enough healing to truly recover.”
Apparently I’m not the only one that thinks driving around on summer nights is awesome.
