You Know its Hard Out Here...

So, I've been relatively absent for quite some time. You may notice that this particular fan club has also seen some removals. Well, let me explain. I've spent the past 2 years of my life much like the previous 4.5, on the road defending freedom. In this particular case I was traveling for our now President, Barack Obama.

It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I've met some truly wonderful people and places in the past, but this particular campaign resulted in more than I can quantify. Never before have I seen the type of impassioned and empowered, simply beautiful people that I had the great privilege to work with on this campaign. The absolute brilliance that took place on a day to day basis, on so little sleep, strung out on coffee and your snack of choice (mine was snack sized butterfingers and coca-cola) was simply amazing to witness and something that words cannot describe.

I have found that in the 3 months now that have lapsed since the end of that extraordinary quest, that it has been very difficult to 1) not speak of it and 2) to explain it to those who were not there.

I've caught myself reading back through a series of emails from the closing days of the campaign and thinking about what not only this campaign, but the last now 7 years of my life have meant to me and to those that my work has touched. One particular email has hit me harder than most. It took me several readings to accept what it was saying and for myself to accept what that person was trying to tell me. She is an inspiration to me and that is why I've decided to restart this blog.

I am going to attempt in the next series of posts to lay out my experience and what this campaign and this lifestyle means to me, what you could call the 2nd Inaugural Launching of this fan club. I encourage those of you who have shared in this journey to comment and send me posts. To those of you who have been on past journeys with me or to those who witnessed this journey from the outside of the organization, please send me posts and comment as well. Not all will be rosy descriptions of the amazing volunteers, not all will be rants about the things that drove us nuts. It is my hope that each post, each story will be balanced and in the end, educational. It is through each perspective that I hope to illustrate to all those who read these entries, just what this life we lead is all about and why we do it.