An experiment in sifting through the BS-- of higher education, politics, expectations, identities; A testament-- to truth and meaning, to life and living, to love and loving; A commitment-- to following my passions, to living without excuses, to being my own master, and having no regrets; A celebration-- of appreciation not appropriation, of listening not assuming, of acting not just speaking, of learning but never being content with knowing; My praxis for full-living, for overcoming my own oppression and reaching some balanced sense of self, for questioning my own subjectivity, and finding my role in the global struggle; An illustration of what it means to view the world from my vantage point, as an overly analytical, pointlessly theoretical, insatiably curious probably over-privileged female from the pits of rural Ohio.