Needless to say it is a somewhat stressful time and my home office shows it, with stuff on the ground and all horizontal space occupied. I have stopped putting things away, thinking that I will get to it later. But this ‘later’ is getting pushed out further and further. Now I think it will be when I get back from my next trip, sometime early May.
I heard on Friday that I don’t have to take the plane from Dubai to Addis but can travel home as we are not quite ready for the start up of our Ethiopian project. I am happy about this because it means I will be back in time to have some of the asparagus that are beginning to poke through the surface.
Yesterday we had our 24th annual Easter party and one of the biggest spreads in the ages of people that we ever had. If our youngest guest will get as old as the oldest present yesterday, we would cover the period from about 1916 to about 2113 for birth years. This is ‘the present’ that Elize Boulding refers to when she uses the word – a concept of time that makes you realize we have come a long way in the present. It makes me less impatient about things taking time to change.
Today I am checking references in Ethiopia, send in a proposal for the Ghanaian health system to get back in touch with itself and check out the weather in Kabul in addition to lining up doctor’s appointments for when I return. And after that I will haul the suitcase up and cover the remaining empty spot on the floor with clothes, work stuff and gifts that will travel with me to Afghanistan tomorrow night.
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