You rule sista. *smiles*

You know, I like the plant image better -- concrete image.

I don't work in the government, but all signs point to a life in the academic world where I am bringing all of this rather edgey energy... and hope to teach my students this as well... and get money to write about it as I do.

See, I am concerned with all this stuff because it is becoming clear to me how easy it is to lose your soul... or, at the very least, allow it to get covered in all that stankness.

Tracy Chapman said it in one of her edgy, early albums: "Don't ever give or sell your soul away cuz all that you have is your soul.

Fight the good fight, Sista...

Q