The Long Road Home
Ten Weeks sounded like a long time. Two and a half months. One-fifth of a year.
A lot can happen in that amount of time. A lot has happened in that amount of time.
I don't think I'll fully realize the enormity of where I've been and what I've done until I can examine it from the mental/physical/emotional place that can only be reached by a 9000 mile journey. From that perspective the events and experiences of the past seventy days will be set into relief and slowly find their place in the larger -still unfolding - tapestry of my life.
I carry with me more stories and thoughts and observations than I know what to do with. Like my suitcases, my mental storehouses are overflowing. As those thoughts begin to trickle out and to coalesce in the weeks and months to come, I hope to commit them to paper, to post them here and elsewhere. While the fieldwork may be drawing to a close, the process of discovery is only just beginning.
Tomorrow I head to Dar. Sunday it is off to Dubai. Monday brings me to New York in the morning and Milwaukee in the evening.
Home at last.
Or Home again.
From one home to another.
Until then.
The road.
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