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wish i may
i might
make a wish upon a star tonight..
email.
me.
i'm brooke. a short, fatish, bisexual, feminist, pacifist, very-liberal activist. i have 4 cats. and 2 computers, 2 kayaks, 1 masters degree, multiple backpacks, and way too many books.
i live in the most beautiful eugene, oregon. i'm currently disabled due to treatment resistant severe depression. i've been blogging since election day of 2000.
i'm born and raised in the mountains of southwestern virginia. i could join the daughters of the american revolution, i don't think they'd like me cause i hear they like to throw tea parties instead of rallies and revolutions.
links.
lane co. bill of rights defense committee (lcbordc) ~
bill of rights defense committee ~
chel ~
lisa ~
carrie ~
cinnamon
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Sunday, May 18
its been an interesting few days. i went to activist camp friday and saturday.. and then today has been a long day with friends. i still feel like crap. i'm honestly terrified about my life and what is next. my doc says that i need to let it go for awhile, but i have a hard time doing that. i hate this illness and what it has done to my life.
in other news i backed out of a conversation with a friend of a friend (l) who said that g.w. bush is the best president we've ever had. i had spent the afternoon in my friends house with her friend's kids.. l is a military wife. thats the reason she gave. there was a lot i wanted to say to her about my work and my goals, but i simply said that i was a very left progressive activist and left the room.. i know what battles to fight, and attacking her.. well, i look at her and see a very harried mother of 2 young ones who is going through a lot of stress, i do not see someone who is political. on the way home though i thought about the war, and the reasons given for all this stuff that we are doing.. our freedoms.. thats what we are told, we kill for our freedoms.. i know something that so many like l don't know- our own government is a bigger threat to our freedoms than any other government, any terrorist group.. and now i'm watching the cbs movie on hitler.. he blamed the jews, our government blames the arabs. the same rhetoric i hear coming from this cbs movie is the same kind of stuff i hear coming from bush himself. and the scary thing is is that the vast majority of americans aren't going to hear it.
anyhow. i'm really not in any mode for personal reflection. i wake up in the morning and the nightmare that is my life starts. i'll save the personal reflection for my doc and therapist.
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