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.
After 50 hours in transit, arrival at someplace so remote and yet so familiar numbs together reminiscence of everything from Imperial Valley to BBC News. So nice to relax with a Turkish coffee and watch the sun gild the city from my dust-caked window - 30 day Visa in hand! - J. R. Pournelle. Posted from my iPhone.
Location:Basra, Iraq
posted by J.R. Pournelle @ 10:43 AM
I am an anthropologist, archaeologist, and geographer, 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.
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