A screamer is someone who sees injustice and can't do anything but stand up and speak out against it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/europe/6281193.stm

Be a screamer.

Home sweet home...
After 3 days at a conference full of way too happy people, it's so nice to be sitting on my couch in silence...
I'm going to see the movie "Screamers" tonight, which is a documentary about genocide. Tomorrow's post may be a rather depressing one.

Today has been marked by a few wonderful moments where I've realized that I am so, so blessed with the most terrific friends.

It's snowing! (well, it's snowing here in Syracuse.) It's pretty, white, and crisp. Aside from the snow, there are 2 other great things about Syracuse.
1) One of my close friends lives here and we're hanging out tomorrow night. I miss her tons and haven't seen her since July.
2) The chat with DK. So needed, SO helpful.

Good things are always great in offsetting the bad or crazy stuff. In this case, the bad and crazy stuff is a lot of happiness. Yes, you read that right - this place is WAY TOO HAPPY. Apparently when a bunch of people who run camps for a living get together, they cheer and whoop and make merry at all hours of the day and night - over the stupidest things. For example: at 7:30 this morning (WAY too early for yours truly), at the registration table, I got a big hollerin' WHOOP because I was a first-time attendee at this conference. I hadn't even finished my first cup of coffee and already these people are doing an endurance trial of the hokey pokey. God help me. Tomorrow, I think one of them might end up wearing my coffee.

All of a sudden, I'm not so sure who I am anymore...

There is a cartoon on my refrigerator that I cut out many years ago which depicts God as a chef with the earth in a baking pan and all the elements on earth as different ingredients. There's bottles of different animals, light-skinned people, dark-skinned people, trees, mountains, etc. In this picture, God is holding one of those bottles and sprinkling it on the dish. The caption from his mouth reads, "And just to make it interesting..." The bottle is labeleds "Jerks."

And therein lies my day.

WHY

do we keep running around in circles???