Together

05/29/08

In a few more days Mary departs for her return trip to Minneapolis. Somehow I am filled with a sense of joy rather than the expected sadness. This joy comes from the knowledge that we have just spent one glorious year together. I mean really together in this crucible of Samoa without the demands and distractions that characterized our life before the Peace Corps. We have come to enjoy each other more.

Now we enter the second phase of our Peace Corps adventure, being apart. This is not by desire nor design but life’s serendipity. We are not a matched set. We each have our own talents and skills, which we now have the opportunity to explore and develop. How lucky we are!