Dear Redacted

[Maggie]

Dear Redacted
(Wednesday, July 25, 2007)


We are home in Arizona as of 1 am July 24. EXACTLY one year after we arrived..to the day...from our terrible war adventure.

It was a long hard trip (redacted). Good and bad...mostly closure of some things. Letting go of the ideal of "expatriatism" for now. It has been my central motivation and I realize now that I must move forward and I must move in this direction and at this pace.

What to do. The Middle East is a downright catastrophe and as well, it is the will of the Lord. I know that but it doesn't necessarily make it any easier to watch from these plush and verdant sidelines in Bisbee AZ.

More to be revealed...I hope you are well and up to your usual practices of working hard. I've got so much to do in the next few weeks in order to get my middle one booked into a decent university. She was accepted at both the U of A and NAU so that is all fine and good. The U of A did pull a nasty trick on us though and asked for a domicile affidavit since they must have had dark suspicions about her citizenship. When I got the lady on the phone of course...she heard my voice and my double yas were typically Arizonianisms and she got her accepted within minutes. Imagine that! Only moments before she was told that her file was under review and she wouldn't have an answer for at least two weeks. Huh? I told my daughter to get back on the phone and we'll speak to someone who understands what it means to request priveledged information prior to having the authority to do so (domicile statements). It's amazing what a True Blue Double Ya will get you nowdays at our lovely public universities like the University of Arizona which is actually a private institution but the xenophobics there just don't tell the taxpayers so..they keep insisting that it is public but we old rednecks down here know the GD Truth about it all. It was the craziest thing and we put down the phone and I told my daughter: You've just been discriminated against for being an Arab. Get used to it and be calm and ingratiating...people can be so ignorant.

The meek shall inherit the earth....


but when?

All my best-ests

Me