They're calling it "The movement"

School's back in session. I'm not talking about the red brick building with the american flag flying, brown sac lunch back packing mother kisses you off to the bus and the bell rings just in time for recess type of thing. I'm talking about college.

The biggest deal about college outside of getting a degree? Being placed in a vast pool of young liberal ideas, common goals and aspirations.

So what do these kids talk about as they share their cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, passing glass pieces and playing guitar, or loud hip hop?

They're talking about the movement. My friend ben smith who I met on evolver was at a party I was at last night. I hadn't seen him in about 6 months because he went abroad to Thailand, I'm sure experiencing some amazing things, apparently the food being one of them.

You can tell by looking at his clothing that the kid is worth talking to about "evolver type topics," and a lot of people were.

It's funny. Here on evolver.net there's a pretty good amount of people with ideas worth communicating and it's impressive. But I realized last night I'm standing on a porch in front of two people I consider spiritual gurus, and we're just hanging out with all these other kids. The idea of being a blogger on evolver.net all the sudden as become eclipsed by my friends, and my friends friends who are all "down" for things. Ben said people keep talking to him and they just keep referring to things as "the movement." He said, "it's as if they went straight from intense contemplation to action" and I was thinking it was as if we never knew anyone was contemplating. We went on to talk about how our bodies are part of the environment, and by the end of the night I realized that we just need to know that we're talking about the same things.

Which leads me into his good idea: at the student involvement fair next week, when organizations decorate tables with pamphlets and posters, he wants "us" to set up a pod of tables amongst the usual rows that stretch down the parking lot. Who are "we?" a collective group of student organizations that although do different things have the same goals in common, and with it, the same social connections. He imagines guitar players and grills to cook out, a real eye catcher, I'm just excited to get this rolling.