journey to uganda I

although i went to uganda in august last year, i have finally found the time to write about it.  i knew that the experience could be life changing and so wrote a journal every day or two.  what follows here and for the next few postings will be installments of that journal.  

august 12/08

so here i sit on the tarmac of the winnipeg international airport.  i have been through all the anxiety about flying with my wife, noelle.  she kept trying to ease my concerns i'm aware that those concerns are not rational.  i have found as i get older i want to avoid anything that smacks of danger.  i think this is because i want to be able to be with and enjoy my family as long as i can.

i've already dealt with dying back when i had that cancer scare in november of 07.  i came to grips with all that and as long as i have significant time to tell those i love that i, in fact, love them and to say goodbye, i'd be OK with dying.

it is interesting that i have these irrational fears.  my fears through my life have always been about my own weaknesses.  now they seem to be external things of which i have no control.

so here we are, taxiing out and i'm on my way to one of the poorest countries in the world. what adventures await me (us actually as i'm meeting my good friend, brad, in london).

noelle kissed me, stefi game me a long hug and jordy blessed me.  and i'm off while listening to modest mouse album "we were dead before the ship ever sank".