While being a foreigner abroad, it is hard to miss how incredibly privileged I am simply because of the shade of my skin, country into which I was born, and the life I am able to lead mainly thanks to my parents.  Really, it makes me thankful for all the ways the Universe conspired to make me, me.  Over the past ten months in particular, I have been spending a lot of time looking at and thinking about power in this strange world in which we live.  In a world where far too often the few with power and privilege are making decisions for everyone, where fear and hatred seem to be running rampant in defense of the existent power structure, where the worth of some human beings seems to be placed much higher than the worth of others, I felt the need to share some of what I have experienced and learned...