Happy New Year

Wow. 2008. I've never been into New Year's Resolutions, sitting down and writing out the things you're unhappy about with the solemn pledge of this time next year all vices, shortcomings, hardships, etc will be properly rectified. Don't get me wrong...I (somewhat skeptically) admire people who begin January 1 determined to be new and improved. It's just not me.



I certainly make plans, but I am more concerned with today than I am of tomorrow. My pre- and post-brain surgery life has forced me to see things differently. Now more than ever I understand that today is not promised. I don't have time to sit down and write lists. I wake up in the morning concerned with what kind of person I am and what kind of person I want to be at this moment. How's my life, my health, my family? What's going on in my city, my country, the world at large? And what, now that I've been given another chance, am I doing about it, what can I do about...Right now.



Which brings me to why I started this blog. The cathartic properties of blogs alone are reason to create one, but given my limited current (hopefully temporary situation) this blog is one way I can DO something.

I am a 21 year old African American woman. In terms of current events and issues, my voice isn’t just silenced it often feels as though it is nonexistent. Apathy and ignorance is common among my peers (be they young, Black, female or all three), but it’s hard to care about the world at large when the information fed to you is created and directed towards people so fundamentally different. I plan on using this blog (along with my other site Ananse Designs) to write about how things like politics, economics, and various cultural movements affect me and give my thoughts on them. No, it won't change the world overnight, but it is a bit of noise.