Finally!!!

I was really starting to seriously doubt if our team would ever actually set foot in Burma.
Well, we left at 5am today after getting the final okay at the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand to travel to Rangoon, the capital.
Driving out of the airport sent me immediately back to New Orleans and the Mississippi coast. Huge trees weighing tons, thrown about like straw in a windstorm. Buildings crushed flat...roofs everywhere, but where they should be...on the buildings...crews of workers in military uniforms, hacking away with hatchets on gigantic fallen oaks.
There is that same LOOK in the face of the locals that we saw at Katrina...disbelief...almost a disengaged , far off stare of watching this drama play out but not really being there in person.
Meeting lots of folks who are very helpful in our assessment...can't go there right now..
Have lot's of stories when we get home, but can't rely on the internet or phones.
I'll fill you in when we get back, but you read the papers, so you know the background here.

OPEN DOORS everywhere for comfort from our father... monks who are seeking...conversations that are amazing...