Pinoo,

These six months away from you have been a real struggle, emotionally and materially. My circumstances have changed and so have I. Yet the essence remains. Life is that eternal struggle we grapple with, that battle with the self to establish our faith, that journey will no mast above to reclaim. It's inexorable yet ephemeral. There have been moments when i have questioned and agonised over my purpose to be here in the dusty heartland of my country. There have been days when i feel i am just drifting and slipping away into the inescapable motions of time. But each time i introspect i find that this state is a chosen way of being and the best of what can be. This physical distance is just temporal- a stop for us to rest so that we may labour on the path to come. So as we plough our way through all of this, know that we are creating tiny seeds of life that will grow and bear fruit in the fields of hope.

xoxo