Arizona thoughts

There are only so many things that a human needs to survive. Ya know, like water and food. That kind of stuff. When those things are everywhere, there isn't much thought about them. They are just a walk to the kitchen away. I personally have wasted tons of food just because I didn't eat them in due time, and they spoiled. The refrigerator was so full that certain things got pushed to the back and went bad. Water is thrown around. We use water to wash our cars, take long hot showers, water grass.

If people don't know who are reading this, I went out to Arizona to the Black Mesa region. We went out to the Native American reservation because there was a call for people to come out. I almost didn't go, not because it wasn't a good cause, but I wasn't sure if it was my fight.

When we were in Arizona, we did chores that we pay people to do. We work our shitty jobs so we can afford to survive. We work so we can buy food that we could produce on our own.

We stayed with a man named Keri Bigay. His mother's name was Alice, father Keeze (?spelling), and his son, which I didn't ever fully catch his name, since he was at school all day and we hardly saw him. Keri was a very strange man, and I think it would take years to fully understand him. From their house we could see Peabody's coal company, which he hated. He had Peabody's signs all over his yard that he had stolen from them. Keri had gone to school to be an electrician, but had never finished. He had wired his whole house to run on solar power, and had digital television. It was crazy, this house in the middle of nowhere, closest town like an hour away, and we are sitting in this guys house watching Animal Planet.

I gained from my trip to Arizona, but maybe not in the way that I had hoped. One thing great about being out there was the sky at night. One thing I miss about living in the country is that there were stars. There are no stars in large cities. I grew up on playing with worms, riding bikes, and night skies.