Ever tried making butternut squash chocolate chip cookes? They're delicious. This doesn't relate to my post but I didn't have any better ideas as to what to title it.

Wow. Here I am. Talking with all of you. I sat down at this computer intending to write about two sentences, as it's late and I'm tired and I don't have things sorted through in my head as to what I want to say. But having things completely sorted through in my head probably won't happen for quite awhile (let's hope never, I think), so this is what I've got. A combination of a visit to Skidmore to see my sister today (she's a freshman there now) and a surprisingly inspirational short article I just read about the history of the anti-globalization movement made me feel a) a surge of nostalgia for not exactly Skidmore even, but for what went on there for me, i.e., life-changing, and b) re-invigorated to do something about all the things I feel need to have things done about them in the world. And to feel that I want to be doing that now, not just 5 or so years hence, and not just indirectly through my job (which is great and I'm thankful for and I can tell you more about later) but directly, through something that I create, such that it's something I really believe in. So anyway I was intending to write about two sentences. And then I starting reading all of your posts. And then I kept reading them. It makes me feel - assured - I think is the right word, that you have all been leading such good lives in the interim since we last met. And that we're all making our way. And finding our way. As are many of you, I've been starting to do a lot of figuring, figuring out what I want to do, and can do, to make change in the world. I haven't come up with an answer yet. More later. You make me happy. I love you all.

Dawn