Back Again, to Ethiopia

I opened, and closed, my last blog entries with these words. And I think there are no more appropriate words to introduce this new adventure:

Katya said, “Being here is like being in Biblical times and modern times at the same time. Like all times are happening at once, and people are just walking back and forth between them.”

Not walking, I thought. Falling.

                                    ~Don’t Cry, Mary Gaitskill

Despite the stories all of us hear--the stories of genocide, war and injustice--East Africa is rising.

I am so thankful to be a very small part of it.