Reflecting.

Had a nice weekend and a very pleasant Valentine's Day.

I seriously need an attitude adjustment.  Too much ego, too much thinking, too much analysis about my life.  Too much mind.  Like in the Last Samurai, which I revisited last night, I need to take more of a "no mind" approach to everything.  And work harder.

Moving back to LA was a wake up call from the pleasant nature of Hawai'i life.  I'm not mourning the end of my time there anymore, and I still struggle to fully appreciate everything I have here.

Because let's face it, I'm lucky to have everything.  I'm lucky to have a good steady job to provide for me until my law school endeavors; I've found an amazing taiko space that will be great with the right amount of effort and personal investment, and even faith; I'm back with my family like I wanted to be all along, and I'm living in a way I could have only dreamed of a year ago.

So I've decided, I can talk proactively, but I need to live it.  And really, ACTUALLY do it.  It'll take better scheduling, more effective time AND energy management, and all around more awareness of what I'm doing or not doing, but I need to just snap out of it and get it together.

Which I am going to do.  Now.

On another note, read this great blog entry by Sahra, a former classmate and APC staffer.  I respect her enormously, and it was great timing coming across this article, after just recently finishing Bell Hooks' work Feminism is for Everybody.  Great book and so very inspiring to live out Progressivism at its best and truest.  Sahra's entry was everything I had always thought but had not quite articulated.

Don't you love when that happens?

Plus, I happen to like Nicki Minaj.