As was probably pretty obvious, I was feeling discouraged, last night. I still am. But I'll get over it.
This morning, it was thundering and pouring, rain, which de-motivated me in my plan to go into Gwangju this morning – I have some shopping I want to do, and I wanted to try to meet my friend Seungbae. But anyway…
There is an immediacy to writing in a blog – you get my feelings of each particular moment. I don't always try to tone down those feelings, or edit out the bad parts. So it will swing back and forth, positive to negative to positive again. Such is life.
I was watching Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert episodes this morning. I particularly enjoyed Stewart's segment on the show dated Sept 9, by Wyatt Cenac, in which a Staten Island version of the SCOTUS struck down California's prop 8. This gives hope for American values of tolerance, despite everything.
And this: "…the greatest honor this nation can bestow: free tee-shirts." – Stephen Colbert, in a show saluting war veterans.