how we have been living

Thank you so much, everyone, for the birthday wishes; you guys made my day. I've been surviving, I guess, in my Texas exile. Job training is too boring to be believed, but not particularly painful, and at any rate I'm halfway done now, and I've only got three more days until I'm home again.

I've been reading Adrienne Rich and watching Battlestar Galactica Classic and crying over the little girl from Detroit who was murdered by the cops and swallowing down sinking feelings over the Texas School Board's decision that slavery ought to be referred to as the Atlantic Triangle Trade, and I just. I'm having one of those evenings when the world is simultaneously too filled with good emotions and too jam-packed with horror.

Tomorrow will be another new day. Have a poem to end this one:

( Cartographies of Silence (Adrienne Rich) )