| Yesterday was nirvana. Went to church and saw a buddy get baptised. Then I shot downtown with my brother Dan and good friend Scott and watched the Cubs hit 3 homeruns including a grandslam and beat the Braves 10-1. It was a perfect day at Wrigley for a game. Then, Dan, Scott, Shelley and Lee ended up just talking for hours literally over dinner, vino, and great conversation. Scott just got back from a year working in Darfur, Sudan with the UN and all the aid NGO's there. He is literally on the ground day in day out with the rebels, Sudanese government, janjaweed, and African Union peacekeepers. He has had colleagues, shot killed, friends hijacked and seen atrocious things. He is really there, doing it. It makes everything you hear on the news, hear at the rallies, and political debates seem so out of touch and completely detached from what is really going on. His stories, experiences, the pics he brought back, and the fact that instead of taking a cushy position with the UN or OXFAM elsewhere, he is heading back for another year as the situation deteriorates back into genocide....it cut me to the heart. I wept for a long time. This is where Dev and I know we are headed, international humanitarian aid. There is nothing else we would rather give our lives to... Don't know how, when or with who but right now that doesn't matter. The course is set... |
