Tim stopped by my fathers work to have a message passed on concerning Africa...essentially "soon" was the message but still without definition. He also revealed the nature of the contract and the financial compensation will be significantly more substantial than previously thought which was already considerable for a minimalist such as myself...

yet...

perhaps in the pursuit of this dream, this life, this goal i have just made a fatal mistake. One in which I may never know the extent of the loss. Does the realization of one goal prohibit the realization of another...is it not a human gift to unify the thesis and the antithesis, to junxtapose the life of the family man and that of the wanderer...is it possible to place them so close side by side that they become entangled, intertwined in a brackish haze?