a tough but good weekend

This last Thursday Friday and Saturday were collectively very very tough but also very good. I was at a Seattle representation of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. The weekend was obviously filled with tough images, thoughts and dialogue. The good part is both embedded in the tough part but also in what emerges from the tough stuff. There was for me, and I would think for lots of others, a good part of seeing the face of injustice and suffering in a wide array that is fairly raw and uncensored. The other part, of the good part, was a few connections that I made with folks that will be significant voices in shaping and guiding as I move forward to what might be the starting of an organization. I very well may be launching one of those NGOs that are always being talked about...YEESH