Khost, Afghanistan

With death and despair so prevalent, this place, with it's keen sense of irony looming behind everything good - where shortly after commenting on the fine weather, a storm ensues - where silence is often discouraged by heavy arms fire bound for the ...

Even bruised and peeling cores pieced together by fragments of survival and suppressed hope can yield to this - when sorrows are sent away and replaced by inflections of purpose in a song...lest constraint, an ease comes when the rhythm begins.  ...

          Your brooding eyes drift toward the hills, somewhere in the direction of oblivion and better days.                 & ...

There is an irregular composure here in these men, a calm that I have never seen before, a lack of need to validate strength because it is implied. While there are collective similarities in all of their stories, the trials of destitution and poverty, of ...