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Saturday, 5 February 05 :: well, i'll be.

i feel better today. i went to a democratic party of oregon meeting, rode up with one of my most favourite members of the dems of lane county and talked a lot with him.

i'm trying to find where in my heart my life will take me. where i want to devote my activism work, what i want to do with my life. i'm leaning more and more away from the traditional peace activism taking place in eugene. i just don't see how that creates change. i just don't see where any of that is getting anywhere. but at this meeting i was heartened. i was glad to hear my values being represented in a mainstream organization. i was glad to hear my values being represented amongst people who could make a change in our elected officials. i was glad to hear that there are people who think like me, for the most part, and who understand we cannot do what we've been doing. i signed up to work on a project about fighting hunger, because *that* seems to kick in the place i go all the time -- we gotta focus on the hungry and the homeless and those without health care coverage here. i think i'm going to drop out of a lot of the work my heart just isn't in around here.

posted by brooke at February 5, 2005 04:40 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.