TheNutter

It never ceases to amaze me how suddenly and completely life can change.  This is the explanation for my absence from this blog.  With the experience of new places and new faces, my new life now feels fully underway.  I don’t have a clear picture of it yet, but that does not worry me in …

Nope, still here… just utterly swamped with school work that I still don’t feel like doing. Final exam tomorrow followed by a few days of essay-mode. I should resurface next week. Lots to say, no time to say it.
I think I’ll go for a walk now…

Wow. What a difference a week makes.!!
Last week… it was the old “You are either with us, or against us.” Which, of course, was a little weird for us Canadians (we’re with ya on Afghanistan but not Iraq so…?) and pretty F’n clear to a great many others: you are the enemy. Now, Obama …

You know there isn’t much news to report in Victoria when I show up on the front page of the Times Colonist for buying a comic book:

The caption reads:
Athabasca University student Jesse Nutter holds the latest printing of Spider-Man’s adventures featuring U.S. President Barack Obama. “I’m an Obama fan more than anything,” said Nutter, …

This seemed like a good time to dig up one of my favorite quotes:
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that …

So this whole blog thing is something I’ve pondered doing for awhile but somehow it seems just right to start it now.  It feels like a tipping point was reached the other day when Obama was elected.  My greatest hope from all of this is that now the voices of reason will increasingly dominate the …