Remember the end of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy? Frodo is finishing his uncle's book, signing off the last page... He recalls not being able to return to The Shire. He's changed. His friends returned and settled in to peace and happiness. It's over a year later and he's changed.
We've returned from Haiti a month ago. We've settled in. We are not tortured as Frodo was, but nothing is the same. I'd seen the horrors and worse to what I saw in Haiti. My compatriots had not. They are not marred by what they saw, but we are all changed. Our relationships are deeper, no veneer left. My guys' accomplishments steeled them. They are more mature, more capable, more focused, more serious about what we're about here in NOLA. Our identity here is changed. We're "outed" now. People know who we are, what we're about and we have a new credibility (Mana in New Zealand) that opens doors for us.
It is good. We are settled, but not as it was, a new reality is our fate. This is good.
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