Hello Birmingham

Taking a break from my usual cryptic and somewhat detached entries, I feel as though I should touch upon something rather...pressing, personally.

It would seem that the forces that be (Buddha, god, Premier Graham) are conspiring against my staying in this city.

After much soul-searching and many a sleepless, fitful night (more fitful than usual, at least), I have taken it upon myself to change directions (perhaps permanently) in my own proverbial path in the hopes that I will be able to in turn (hopefully permanently) change the direction of the collective path of my human family.

Recent world events (as well as my own recent self-education) have completely reshaped the world as I know it and I feel I can no longer deny my own talents and the direction I have been pulled in and pushed into for years. I feel as though I can no longer, in good conscience, spend my time studying what I have been studying up until this point in life. My focus for the past eight plus years is still my passion, still my primary interest, still a motivating factor for my getting up in the morning and I suspect that it always will be. However, that being said, there are certain things beyond my control that need to be taken into account. Certain items of note in both the Western and overall world stage, particularly political ones, demand my attention more than anything else and I would be remiss if I simply pretended they did not exist.

I do not know where this current new path will take me. I do not know where I will end up or even where I will be a year from today. The only thing I know is that I cannot stand idly by as the entire world is changing at the hands of an elite few and at the expense of the rest. My own humanity demands that I do something and it is this humanity for which I am fighting.

I only hope that it isn't too late.