Living Rarefied

Tomorrow morning @ 5:00 AM I will be on a flight with 27 others from my community journying to El Salvador.  I am physically and mentally exhausted from my trip to Colorado last week and this week at work trying to cram everything in.  Haven't even packed yet.  I think as soon as I get on that plane, it will click and it will be game time.

2 things i hope

• Trip will be filled with different experiences than i had in 2004.  I don't want to focus on "I remember this, or that"  or "I was feeling this or that last time".  I want fresh perspective on this trip or I am no better off than sitting on a couch here in MN reminiscing about the 2004 trip.
• Leave things from home at home.  I have to bring my phone for work.  I just hope it doesnt ring.  This is the 2nd of 3 weeks i will be gone and being the only technology guy at the office puts pressure on me in times like this if things go off course.  Friendships, relationships, struggles I want to leave here. I want to focus on the new relationships and the new people and their stories.  I don't want to be thinking about what so and so is thinking about me while I am in conversation with a new friend.  That would be a disservice to them.

Ethan Feeling