Giant Skies For Tiny Earths

Hear I sit on the last possible day to submit this blog, and I am still finding it a challenge.  I am disappointed in myself because I want to use this space well.  I see great value in blogging,  I see it as an incredible, free, widely accessible way to share thoughts and ideas, yet I think there is a dichotomy to this space.  This content has the potential to be read by anyone which makes me feel pressured to be pithy, witty, and clever, yet I know the reality is that it will be read by very very few (hi Alisha), and that leaves me feeling a little like I am shouting into the void. I see blogging as a way to expand our bubbles, and GRS is pretty bubbly.  We are all rather like minded to begin with, and even within the program we tend to gel with those who are most similar to ourselves.  I think this is natural in any situation.  Its comfortable, encouraging,  and not necessarily a bad thing. Yet I find myself somewhat unable to communicate my ideas and ideals when I am confronted with those who hold a different world view, that is to say, when I step out of my bubble.  I am currently out, home in Edmonton for the Christmas break, and it’s a little shocking that the people surrounding me here don’t spend all their thoughts on  food, or food systems, or sustainability.  I am often finding myself with out anything to talk about and I fear that it is making me a little boring.  But I am trying to accept this, eating the food placed in front of me without raging that the salad came from a plastic clam-shell, because I have raged in the past and I don’t think it’s very effective.  I fell like blogging might be a method to communicate ideas with out raging, or at least raging in a considered, well edited manner.