It's hard to know how to help reconstruct "ordinary" life after a war. No life is ordinary. Here are reflections on pasts, presents, and futures along the way.
Promises Kept, Albeit Delayed
I promised back in November to fill in this blog from notes and journal entries—then life intervened. So now I have done so. See new postings—now gleaned from backs of envelopes, Pocket PC virtual stickies, and the like—backdated to date written (10-11 December 2003; 27 July, 8 August, 23 August 2004). I’ll keep at it, and keep adding photos and audio logs.
posted by jrp @ 7:38 PM
I am an anthropologist, archaeologist, and geographer, who once was engaged in re-building university programs in Iraq. I tend to think about life as lived over the past several thousand years, as well as over the past several hundred hours. I was not embedded in "hot" zones. I was just going about a very odd little bit of ordinary life, in extraordinary circumstances.
