This picture was night two on a sunset cruise down the Mekong River. Along with Moon and I was a Canadian women from Ottawa. Karin was taking a break from her regular job, with an offshoot arm of he UN, as a Syrian Refugee Coordinator in Jordan. She didn't find work as an attorney her cup of tea after receiving a law degree and wanted something more interesting and rewarding. That sounds a lot like Disneyland to me, not Jordan with the possibility that somebody could take a shot at you. She was a delightful woman in her mid thirties and beginning to look for something more settled since she'd been doing this kind of work in different parts of the world since 2005 when she helped with the tsunami relief.
US Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan, Michael McKinnley and his wife Mia sat next to us at breakfast yesterday morning. He works in the compound and is an expert at war, as his wife explained. The Ambassador only leaves the compound with an armed-to-the-teeth four car motorcade and keeps his head down. Mia never leaves except when she and her husband are able to take a break out of country. He's trying to help negotiate a way out of the whole mess.
So this tiny blog is dedicated to these two people who put their lives on the line to do important work.
More later.
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