The gratitude of home

Sunday morning here in Madison. Rain. No ice. We missed the single-digit temperatures neighbors suffered through last week.

I am feeling deep gratitude — for life, for friendship, for the privilege of travel and learning.

Here are the two guys who made our stay in Istanbul so warm, and who made all potentially hard things easy:

Kemal and Doğan

And a very special thanks to Sarah, without whom I would NEVER have gone to Istanbul, to Sarah who struggled mightily to get posts into this blog from her tiny cell phone, to Sarah who read to me at breakfast, explaining whatever we were going to see that day, and therefore opening my eyes.

Teşekkür ederim!  Thank you!