Out of nothing

It was good to wake up at this place again. The hotel is beautiful. We drove into Xenecoj early today to get the physical space for the medical clinic established. Okay, let me correct that. That's what they did while I generally walked in the street, taught some little kids how to play soccer the right way, and shot lots of video and stills. We did deliver two truck loads of medication to the clinic sight.
The clinic is being held in a Pentacostal church building made of cinder blocks and concrete with a corrugated steel roof. The rear third of the space is an elevated concrete platform and the place is lit by light through glassless windows and some fairly stark flourescent lights. Diana and Sarah organized the mass of meds into categories while Shawn and his dad hung bedsheets on twine that were tied off to the rafters thus constructing exam rooms on the elevated section. You gotta love this stuff. A setup like this would have the majority of medical folks back home up in arms about this and that, mostly that. The folks that come here will not only dig the setup, they will do their best stuff here.
This is about street level healthcare for folks who need it and appreciate it. I think for most of the people who come here on mission, it is about something way more than doing "their thing." Like I said before, this place and places all over the world like this one are about reality in the abscence of the plastic coated illusion we live in. Lots of folks disagree with my assessment of both ends and that is fine. I only know what I see and experience. We complain at home when our 4th MRI scan of the year takes 2 days longer to schedule than we demanded. Folks here hope their kids will stop vomitting up tapeworms and eat two meals in a day. You tell me where reality lives.
Tommorrow will be something of a special joy as we head up into higher elevation to Santa Maria de Jesus. It was my favorite spot last year and has the coolest indigenous market I have ever seen. I have an interview to get and Shawn and Damaris have some biz to take care of. We are crashed tired and hitting it early tonight. Diana and I hope to go roaming tomorrow afternoon in Antigua.....if we get really lucky we'll get lost.