Just a few more days and our journey begins. I have spent today packing and organizing. I have much left to do before Wednesday. Sometimes I think there is as great or greater trepidation on subsequent trips. There is such an intensity of emotions related to a journey such as this, the tendancy is to hope this trip will mirror the last. But just as the second was very unique and different from the first, I must open my mind, my eyes, my ears, my soul, to the journey that unfolds before me. Each day, each encounter, each moment, each individual will have its own story. Be still and listen.