Getting Started.....(sue)

Welcome to the first class of 2009 - and what a time to be thinking about representing our world and our response to it. New president about to be inaugurated, war and death in the middle east and concurrent protest from the peace movements, the Iraqis taking over their own security, vets here at home still not getting the help they need, an economy in free fall - - - an uncountable number of resolutions for the new year. What better time to remember the words of the great bard of the 20th century:

Well, while I'm here I'll

do the work - - 

and what's the Work?

To ease the pain of living.

Everything else, drunken

dumbshow.

Allen Ginsberg, "Memory Gardens (elegy for Jack Kerouac)"