Thursday, January 29, 2009

My Problem

"My problem is that I'm twenty-three years old and I've already had the experience of a lifetime."

Young foreign aid worker returning to passport country after two years in Colombia.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Re-Entry

"When I go back I know I shall be out of it; we fellows who've spent our lives out here always are."

Somerset Maugham The Gentleman in the Parlour

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Adaptability

"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."

Mohandas Gandhi

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Closure

"Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art of ending."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend."

Shakespeare