Heya...

Heya, Hi-ya, Ho-ya:

I know it's been an awful long time since I posted. Forgive me. It hasn't been for lack of wanting to. It's just that it's been... Well, it's been pretty awful of late.

Sorry to start off with such a dreadful ("dreadful" -- don't you just love that word, in an Emily Dickenson-esque sort of way?) tone, but, if truth be known, then the truth is, things around here have been pretty dreadful for quite a while now. (Well, if you define "dreadful" as "lacking the means to do anything other than that which has been established as that which one must do in order to maintain one's status in life," then yes, absolutely, things around here have been rather dreadful lately.)

Could it be worse? Hell, yeah. Just ask Sarah McLaughlin, or the guy who pleads on behalf of the Polar Bears, or even Laurie Metcalf, who pleads on behalf of the children of Darfur...

Could it be worse? Hell, yeah. It could be way worse. That's what makes it so painful.

If I'm not gonna help out one of them -- If I'm not gonna be able t'make any sort of difference in my life -- then why the fuck am I getting up every day, tryin' t'do anything???

Someone please, answer me.

It's all so overwhelming. So "bigger than thou..."

So what do I do? And exactly how?


Signed,
Deserately Curious