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In two days Lisa and I will be in El Salvador!

We are crasy packing and getting ready to go. In the middle of the rush I have picked up a book that I am having a hard time putting down. It is called Still Love in Strange Places by Beth Kephart. It is a book about the relationship of a US caucasian woman who marries a Salvadoran man. She tries to enter his world in El Salvador, and she does a good job of painting a picture of his family and the country. I especially love her description of the land and the aliveness of the land.

Here is one quote I liked:

But listening is something else. Listening is trying to forget who you are and what you think you need to know so that you can be, really be, inside the church of another’s memories. When I listen to Bill tell the many stories of his grandfather, I am tantalized by the possibility of possession, transference. I am puresuaded into imagining my own inclusion in his past, into imagining that I can hand these stones of history to our son.