Inside my head, there is a dream that I wanna see in the sun.
Behind my eyes there is a me that I've been hidin' for much too long,
cuz I've been too afraid to let it show,
cuz I'm scared of the judgment that may follow,
always puttin' off my livin' for tomorrow.
It's time to step out on faith.
I've got to show my faith.
It's been elusive for so long,
but freedom is mine today...
- India.Arie

I wonder a lot about how all these conflicting ideas about life and death and love and hate and war and peace and women and men and politics and whatever the opposite of politics is are supposed to reconcile themselves in my head. I wonder how we ever know for sure that anything in our lives is what we think it is. I wonder why my hair won't grow faster. I wonder how we can be a brotherhood of man without ever really trying in any significant way to understand how we are so much more alike than we are different. I wonder how it is that my very nature is to rebel against everything that is expected of me, with very few exceptions. I wonder how I look when I sleep.
And then I wake up on a day like today to see the sun smiling back at me, and I can't help but be encouraged that everything that doesn't make sense now will by and by. Days like today force me to see the beauty I all too often forget surrounds me.
In short, today was a good day.