The defense of innocence

I have been away from this blog, immersed in school work, for a few weeks now. I am going to the Holocaust Museum for a field trip soon, and I watched the most incredible video on Africa this evening. It's amazing, when you finally look up from work and your own life, what wonders and terrors the world can hold. I started into this teaching thing thinking that it would give me time to write in the summers. I now see that's like saying I got into hunting tigers because I thought it would give me time to watch stripes. The visceral experience of teaching is life-altering.

So...much...going...on. I will tell you about it when life slows down. In the meantime, check out the following. Sudan is still practicing genocide, and it ain't pretty. There comes a time in history when we must defend innocence, or throw it in the gutter. When 11 million souls went into the dark oblivion through the passivity and inaction of a disinterested world, did we learn anything? I doubt it, but we will see. Darfur must be defended.