TALK: The Green Mountain College Blog

So I am officially in love with the English Department.

I'll give you a couple guesses as to what event this flier is advertising.

How about this one?

Details inside.

One of the most compelling features of this higher education bit is how it brings together so many distinct personalities with their individual agendas and ambitions in this neutral setting where the opportunities to face the opportunities and plights of our shared realities exist.

Above: the people of the Mid-Atlantic advocating a common reality of Peace in
Philadelphia. My roommate, Josh, and I made it out to this rally; a crew of GMC
visionary realists made it out to another rally on the same day in Boston.

The Energy Bill is the apparation of this struggle for a world where we don't deceive ourselves into wars for peace, one where we don't give our neighbors cancer by our very modes of mobility. Here's where the jigsaw protozoa that are you and me fit in....

I feel that as one gets older, one has less and less time to truly reflect, probably because one has more responsibility. It seems the MORE responsibility you have, the LESS time you have, and consequently, the MORE stress you have. And the MORE stress you have, the MORE likely you are to spend your sparse spare hours doing anything and everything MINDLESS--such as watching Southpark, or listening to Mitch Hedberg on youtube, or making funny faces in the mirror...

but every now and then you take a few seconds out of your busy schedule and come to some sort of conclusion about life, where you are in it, where you are going with it, and whether or not this is a good thing.

So here we go.

So this week has been quite on the musical side, too. I attended my mentee's concert on Monday, which was cute, as she had a flute solo for her father's favorite Christmas Song ("Little Drummer Boy"). It was adorable when she was talking to me about it, too. She was like: "Shhh. Don't tell my father. It'll be a surprise!!!"

[Man, I love being a mentor. She called me earlier tonight to see if I'd be willing to decorate Christmas cookies with her and her friends Saturday morning. You have no idea how excited I am.]

And then, on Tuesday, Brent's roommate Alex told me about the concert he was going to be in, so I went to go see it. I didn't realize that it was the final for the guitar and djembe classes, but found out when I got there. It was absolutely amazing. The last djembe song (which I did not record because I was far too involved in the music) almost made me cry. It was THAT powerful. Everyone was putting in their all, for sure.

Click here for some video footage of the concert!