You know, with all the different meanings of words, it’s a little wonder that people have trouble learning a different language. Or is this so? For example, over the last few days, the word “power” has come up in a lot of different contexts. The first was yesterday afternoon, when the campus suffered a power outage. All the lights, all the air conditioning, all of it went kaput for the space of a few hours. The bank was nonfunctional, the classrooms were stuffy, the cash registers were crippled.

I’m only finished about half of the update I wanted to do. Mainly I just changed some of the link displays and added a scrolling image over in the photos link section. Oh, and a new color scheme to fit the way I feel these days… not black, but somewhat grey. Which is pretty good considering… and there is a little green, here and there. New shoots, new life, new way of thinking. Hopeful, yes. So much to update here… I am going to collect this site into a smaller set of categories, and make it look somewhat less like …

Yesterday was a very painful, difficult day. I learned a lot yesterday about myself, and about life. I learned that sometimes the things you believe really matter, simply don’t change anything. That the truth is good, but it can hurt like hell. I learned that maybe the things I thought were essential and fundamental, aren’t. I learned that the most powerful thing maybe isn’t the most important thing, just as my friend Charlie told me so many times, and even told me yesterday. (And what other people have told me, in their way.)