Man—especially after looking at all the photos I could find online, as well as reading Gabe Dominguez’s entry about the commencement on his tour blog and all his comments about meeting Nader and Jack Healey, and even more so hearing a first-hand account of it from one of my favorite folks, I’m officially very, very jealous that I wasn’t at BYU’s Alternative Commencement on Thursday. Officially. Very jealous. Man, it makes me so happy to see all this happening and bubbling up in Utah County, a community I love so much exactly because it’s a place where you can meet more internationally aware and politically engaged Mormons who are internationally aware and politically engaged because of their faith, than anywhere else in the world. To see that community really coming together and speaking with a voice, as it did Thursday—that’s beautiful to me.
Today’s been a busy day—preparing a talk for church tomorrow this morning, traipsing around my rural neighborhood home teaching this afternoon (and man, it’s still pretty hot considering we’re in the “cold” season around here) and then going to at Institute at my local branch, then a phone interview with a really cool-looking charter school in the Bronx (which was interrupted twice by power outages—man, that principal is a patient fella), then talking to Mom and Dad and some favorite folk on the phone. It’s been a pretty long day—but an awesome one. I dig awesome.
I think the phone interview went really well—he said I should hear back in about two weeks after he’s talked to all the other candidates. I won’t be too worried if I don’t get it, but I’m feeling pretty good about the interview, so who knows?
My buddy Amude got robbed today, about half of his monthly salary. Especially considering how little he gets, and how many people he supports (his mother and most of his siblings), that’s huge. I really hope he’ll be okay this month. For those of you that pray, keep him in your prayers.
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"Beware of jealousy, it is the green-eyed monster..." unless, of course, it's justified, which in this case, it is. :) I'm no Shakespeare, but I don't think he knew what was going to happen in Provo in 400+ years when he penned that line. Let it out, man, let it out.
But Rolf, I find myself jealous of your anthropological/spiritual adventure in Mozambique. I wish I had your chance to see and experience the people out there on the other side of the world. I guess we'll just have to keep each other posted, then, on what's going on our respective sides of the hemisphere. Oh wait...
Wow, the commencement was awesome. Gabe did awesome "Who's streets, our streets!" and it was so inspiring being there seeing Nader get a standing ovation and it was just rad.
My favorite part was when Nader said that there should be a "none of the above" choice on the ballot "because what stronger mandate could you send to politicians on election night than NO THANK YOU, try again" Or whatever. so good. I'm so proud of all those kids.
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