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Saturday, 10 September 05 :: is it possible?

is it possible to approach activism from a heartfelt space? is it possible to be a strong activist while holding compassion for those who you activate against?

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tommorrow's workshop looks like it'll be a hard day. there will be a couple of hard-for-me people there and i don't know a lot of people otherwise. but my friend ms and i will have a breakfast date, and then he'll attend the workshop as well. it'll be nice to have some time alone with him, we've not really done that. i got to spend sometime alone with k (+the kids) -- his girlfriend, partner? hmm.. not sure how they define their relationship -- last week and this upcoming week i'm hoping to get to spend sometime with the both of them.

i'm enjoying getting to know them. i first met them, and the rest of the tribe, back at my first course in may. k and i were students together. since then we've talked about connecting, but this last course really seemed to cement the beginning to connect. or so it feels like that to me. i'm glad ms will be there tommorrow, it'll be nice to talk about the situation over breakfast and to get his words on it and to just know that he'll be there throughout the day for a supportive hug if i get a bit overwhelmed.

posted by brooke at September 10, 2005 06:17 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.