Third Level

For the past month and a half, I have been writing reflections in the notes section of my facebook page on my participation this year in the Shalom Mission Communities delegation to Valle Nuevo, a small community in the town of Santa Marta, Cabañas, El Salvador from this past June.  In an attempt to allow others (non-facebook members) to read these reflections - I have started this blog, but hope to continue with the blog for other purposes.  Today I wrote my last Valle Nuevo reflection and will begin to post them daily here.  Having written with a pen back in June, reflected on those writings and my memories during the month of July, and then posting each of those reflections here during the month of August - it feels as though we are on a third level of memory here - much like the levels of dreams within dreams in the movie Inception. Regardless, it feels good to be done and to move on to my daily thoughts - of course, my next project is to begin to go through my journals and photos and to form some sort of coherent record of my past - but that will take a very long time and I don' know how much of that process will end up here on this blog.