We both know that I will not come. We both know that he won't be in Canada. There will be another earthquake, another flood, another war, another reason to not go where we think we are going. It is a strange life, this. Chasing human misery around the planet. We are not the sort of people who go where we say we are going.
Kelsey Hoppe, Chasing Misery: an anthology of essays by women in humanitarian responses
aid, humanitarian-aid, humanitarianism, love, misery