Bear with me, today will be light. I’m fine, and back from the Shrine for a third time in three days and I’m just too tired to write too much right now. My apolo­gies.
But at least I was in the Shrine when the pil­grims made it in. Hun­dreds, thou­sands of them flooded the war zone and turned what was a burned out neigh­bor­hood into some­thing almost fes­tive — assum­ing you find RPGs cool (like I do.)
Any­way, I think this cease-fire is actu­ally work­ing. It’s giv­ing the Mahdi mili­ti­a­men time to leave the area and vacate the Shrine. We’ll see, obvi­ously. There’s no way to ever be sure or any­thing in this place.
Going to rest a lit­tle now. Will try to blog more about today later.