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Cold and Disconnected

I’m cold. It’s raining, it stays light out too late, and I’m cold. America can be like that at times.

We are back in the USA for about 6 weeks, and I am currently with Lisa and the boys at her parent’s house in North Dakota. It’s nice to see family again, but there are things about it that bother me more than I expected, and many of them have to do with summer.

Summer is supposed to be warm, but it sure doesn’t seem very warm to me. But more than that, with North Dakota being so far North, it’s the light that really bothers me. Cambodia is in the tropic zone, so the amount of daylight that you have from one season to another pretty much stays the same. I know that somewhere between 6:00 and 6:30 pm I know that the sun will go down. But here in North Dakota it’s not like that at all. In the winter the sun sets early, and in the summer, like it is now, the sun sets late. So it will be 10:30 pm and still light out! I can’t begin to explain how much that bothers me. It never used to, but for some reason, on this trip, it is driving me crazy. I suppose part of it is that I didn’t expect it.

Isn’t that the way life works? If you are tempted with big things, or facing big problems, it’s not that hard to do the right thing. But when it’s something little, annoying and unexpected, it’s harder to deal with. The Devil is in the details.

One other problem is that here in North Dakota there isn’t really much “connection”. Internet hook ups are kind of hard to find, so some of these posts over the next week and a half will be even less regular than usual.

posted by Troy In Cambodia @ 9:18 AM