Betwixt and Between

January 22, 2010

What is it to say yes? Where does that yes arise? What am I saying yes to? An opportunity lies before me, Uganda. As you have read this word has not been mentioned before. It is new. Uganda. I looked on a map. There it is nestled between Kenya and Rwanda and Lake Victoria with the equator running through it.

Why Uganda? Suna and her non-profit organization want to send me there to deliver two high tech water filters to give to Rev. Dr. Isaac Nsereko. He was awarded the International Peace Award for setting up an orphanage and vocational training program in Masaka. He’s a visionary like CCODER’S Govinda Dhital. I’d like to meet him and see what he is about.

What about expenses, what about vaccinations and diseases and the wear and tear on my body? Is this a distraction or a direction?

When I went to Chappaqua a couple weeks ago, Suna told me more about the work Isaac is doing in Uganda. I ponder if the village development project in Nepal can be a model that would be useful to Isaac. We talk and Suna wonders too. She wants these water filters delivered to the Educational Project. I’m free and she asks the board if they will pay for my flight and hotel room. The other expenses are mine. They say yes.

The adventurer in me is perched and ready to go and the other little voice inside is questioning its brilliance knowing that all that glitters is not gold. Today in the woods ambling along the snow-laden trails, I can feel a yes. How I respond is still in question.

The Wees Ones Peyton and Anjoli

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