Since I was 18 and went to live in Sweden for a year, and even before that really, I haven't felt American. When people in other countries judge our actions abroad, I pretty much always agree with what they say and have no interest in defending my own country. Yet, I am American. I vote. I read up on my own politics. I participate in our social systems. However, I have always felt my views to be too far outside those of the mainstream to consider myself a legitimate American. I do not support the war on terror. A war against a concept is just inane. Why don't we just flush money down a toilet and call it the war against counter clockwise swirls. In all seriousness, it would be much more beneficial to have a war against junk mail which truely does waste natural resources, or a war against unnecessary packaging, or I don't know a war against HUNGER. Instead of this dumbass war against thought we're currently pursuing. So over the years I've been trying to ...
I ski, teach, parent, write, read, swim, adventure. I get lost in my own mind, chewing on words and images. Sometimes something good comes out.