One more week in the states, and it should be an exciting one if I'm not paralyzed by the path in front of me. Just finished an amazing 6 weeks of work with Claire, Shaun, Marty, and others adapting "the prophet" into a theater production. For those who might not know, it is a work of poetry/proverbs by a Lebanese-American from the 1920's I believe. Critically our adaptation was not all that it might have been, but there were beautiful moments on and off the stage that I will never forget. I cannot imagine a more wonderful place than Orphalese to spend these last few weeks before my journey to Morocco. This week I need to 1) pack, 2) fill out numerous forms that have been neglected for the pursuit of art, 3) spend some time with my dear friend Daniel who is returning from Germany after a year and a half over seas in order to receive acceptance letters a most prestigious list of graduate programs, and 4) if everything goes smoothly, make road trip up to Charlotte to get down with my moe.rons one last time. I made an interesting connection while working on this play. Jane Hadley, the drama chair at Queens University, and perhaps the only one who fully shared claire and my enthusiasm for this project, informed me that her nephew Andy is with the Pcrps in morocco working on small business development. There is another connection which exists through Toni and Ron Peacock in Augusta, but knowing the social circles they keep... Anyway, I took a look at his blog tonight and decided that it was time to start one of my own. Hopefully it will be discovered by each and every one of those friends and family members who have demanded updates. And for those family members who no longer feel it necessary to put words like "email," and "technology" in quotation marks, I trust that these will be passed along to those less internet savvy family members, my dear mother especially. Thankyou all, and wish me luck.