I went to my five year college reunion this weekend. I really only went to hear one of my favorite Women's Studies professors lecture, then Brian and I walked around town for awhile. None of my good friends went, but I still see my college roommates a couple of times a year, which is nice but not often enough! It is so hard to fit everything in now that we have jobs and families (or school and dogs).
It was weird coming from FTON to Granville and seeing all of the fancy looking alumnus. It is a bit of a culture shock, but I have spent the last almost ten years of my life on college campuses, not in lower income neighborhoods. While most college campuses do tend to cater to a privileged audience, I can't pretend that I'm not more comfortable in the classroom than walking Asher alone down our street. I don't know if that will ever change.
Well, Brian is writing a new song on his guitar and he needs me to sing backup. Better go!
"lumbering our minds with literature..."
"Somewhere between prayer and revolution....:"
"This is what we were all doing, lumbering our minds with literature that only served to cloud the really vital situation spread before our eyes...I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning. This, then, was the difficulty, this sweet dessert in the morning and the assumption that the sheltered, educated girl has nothing to do with the bitter poverty and the social maladjustment which is all around her, and which, after all, cannot be concealed, for it breaks through poetry and literature in a burning tide which overwhelms her." -Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House
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