June 19, 2002

Flags everywhere we go.

We spent twenty-five hours in airplanes and airports, familiarizing ourselves with the napping possibilities of four different airport floors, until we finally arrived in Lubbock, Texas, Elizabeth's home town. It is good to be anywhere and it is good to sleep (and not use our luggage as pillows).

The news from "back home" isn't good - several more suicide bombings - but the news is rarely good these days. There is also a lot of talk of building a wall between the West Bank and Israel, which to us seems like another destructive division. But walls can be torn down.