We've had this "secret project" going on at school this week that I've gotten to work on a little bit at a time. This morning I wrapped up my part in it by finding myself revisiting the first "important book" that I read here in Hawaii: Dave Eggers' You Shall Know Our Velocity!. And I ran across this quote that I love and would like to share:

I believe in fact, and in the plain truth told wholly-- that the truth retold can be a net thrown around life at a certain time and place, encompassing all within, and that people can go out there, live as actors, work within their staging ground, do so with a soft heart; I want others to go out in the world with an idea, with intentions and means, and come back with a story about how their actions affected the world and how they themselves were shaped by the results. . . there's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated. Friends, I urge you to find us hopeful. I urge you to find that we tried something, knowing nothing of the results. . . there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

That, Charlie Brown, is a bit of what it's all about.