Departing!
October 20, 2002
Hi everyone,
Well, my ticket is here and all the stuff I'm packing is spread around the living room floor. I am also starting the first 48 hours I have had all to myself since being home. Yeah, I miss solitude, I had lots of it up in Nazareth, and none of it once I got to Hebron, sometimes I can't stand the thought of it when the possibility arises (people have started calling me an extrovert which is new and very surprising to me), but it feels good and
re-centering when I've got it. Pretty much these days I'm at a point where if other people are around I feel like I ought to be with them, even if I'm really tired, and feel guilty for closing the door to my room. Oddly enough, the first thing I did was go outside and prune all the trees and bushes. We got one warm afternoon, then back to windchill. I had to scrape my windshield this morning and was disgusted. The other day, it snowed.
Time to return to the Middle East, I say.
I guess I was a sucker for punishment this time home, or maybe just motivated. I somehow racked up 17 speaking engagements and six interviews. Most of those were unplanned and after the paper ran the story about my going to Iraq. For the most part, I found that youth groups were more interested in Iraq, and Palestine was for more 'conservative' groups--somehow, it seems, now that Iraq is on the table, Palestine has
become much less taboo. Although I did have a senior church group today that wanted to know all sorts of things about Iraq and strongly voiced their disapproval for the war. That was neat. The messages of support I've received from friends, family and strangers has been quite moving and uplifting. Thanks very much to those of you who sent them. I will think of those words in more uncertain moments over the next couple weeks.
I'll be getting back into Minneapolis if all is according to plan on Feb. 7th for another 4-5 weeks home. Hopefully I'll be able to catch up then with everybody I missed this time around.
Well, guess the next message will be from Iraq! Talk to you then!
Le Anne
Sunday, October 20, 2002
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