I started this blog right before the trip, thinking I was going to write a diary while in Beirut.
I got so engulfed in life there and didn’t blog.
Then I went back to the daily grind of DC and the blog went by the wayside.
There were so many thoughts, emotions, experiences during the 3 weeks in Lebanon. They were too overwhelming to capture in words.
Though everyone knows how small Lebanon is and that everyone knows everyone, I am still amazed at every coincidence and my connecting web of people.
I hired an assistant in Lebanon to follow up with the organizations I talked to and get additional still photos. She told me about an organization I didnot get a chance to visit, and then told me that one of their executives was in DC. I jumped on the occasion thinking this person may be here for a short time and that I had to meet her. I turns out she is an American who went to live for 4 years in Lebanon and helped start the organization and was now living in DC. We met twice, talked Lebanese politics and brainstormed about my film proposal. Of course, she knew most of the people I interviewed and many more in common. It seems the distance between Beirut and Washington is not that big.