STACITA.

My day started this morning like most.  Orders from the court. Conversations with my client. Frustration. Question. Denial.

Tonight, I came home exhausted. Didn't sleep last night. So I finally watched the NetFlix waiting for me. Freedom Writers. And for the first few minutes, i thought this would be a modern day version of Higher Learning. I was so wrong.

Erin Gruwell was who I wanted to be. Want to be. She is social justice. She is progress. She changed people's paths. Permanently.

I wonder all the time -- where am I going? where are we all going? All of us feel some form of shackles... debt, commitment, inexperience, lack of opportunity or choice, no possibility of movement.  We came from the most progressive places and yet in six quick months, maybe more or less, we've realized how easy it is to stagnate, to forget how to make change, to lose our drive to challenge. We become obedient, in the box, forget how to rise and engage.

We have small victories - a publication, a return of property, a bit of pro bono. But we have to figure out how to get more... Make bigger change, bigger waves, stop caring about the politics of ParisLindsayBritney and realize what's going on around.

There's a War going on and there are wars going on.  We need to stop waiting, fucking wake up, and figure out where we could go to make change.