Military

The place is still dust brown, probably even more so than when we got here. The harvest is over and most of the green that was here is gone until next year.

I love Emily Dickinson’s poetry. Her melancholy words bounce along on a light and happy tune.

FOB Jackson is an effort to remember now. Two weeks ago, I was sitting on a hescoe sipping a coke and watching the sun go down over one of the most war-torn places on earth.

2012-11-06 Seanan and ministerial colleagues, the Revs. Cynthia Kane,  Nayer Taheri and Karen Stoyanoff enjoy a day of sailing off San Diego CA to celebrate Seanan’s return from deployment in Afghanistan. Seanan and his mother,  Sharon Devine,  shortly after his flight home from Afghanistan. Seanan and buddy enjoy the sea air.  

It seems like it’s been a busy couple of weeks, although there has been some down time. Traveling out here is a challenge. It’s not like the bus runs on a regular schedule.

I am now the proud and comfortable owner of the best Hello Kitty bedding ensemble in Afghanistan. One of the possible lessons here is that, “What comes around, goes around.”

It is June. The trend is that day-time high temp in June will be around 110F. July and August will be about 10F additional for each month.

This week we grieve the loss of Marines.Grief continues, but it feels as if we do not have much time to grieve. There is a war. We have a mission.