Where did the last week go?

One month

4 weeks

29 days

696 hours

41,760 minutes...

...And I'll be in this beautiful country.

So I just realized that I'm down to four weeks. Strange thing, I swear it was just yesterday that I had 5 weeks until I lea

ve. Hmm...where did that week go. I'm not really sure, but I am sure that these next four weeks will probably pass in the same way, without my knowledge. So I've got to get down to business. Appointments, errands, shopping, packing, getting things in order.

I've been thinking a lot about Mexico recently. And I really miss it. I dream about Mexico, long for Mexican food, and spend my time looking at pictures from the trip. As I've been thinking about Tijuana and the situation that it is in, it reminds me of some quotes that I've saved from the book Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder. Let me share:

"It's a parallel universe. There really is no relation between the massive accumulation of wealth in one part of the world and abject misery in another."

"I know it sounds shallow, the opiate thing, needing to believe, palliating pain, but it didn't feel shallow. It was more profound than other sentiments I'd known, and I was taken with the idea that in an ostensibly godless world that worshiped money and power, or more seductively, a sense of personal efficacy and advancement, like at Duke or Harvard, there was still a place to look for God, and that was in the suffering of the poor."

"You want to see where Christ crucified abides today? Go to where the poor are suffering and fighting back, and that's where He is."

Of all the world's errors, he seemed to feel, the most fundamental was the "erasing" of people, the "hiding" away of suffering. "My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember".

"...the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world."