” … Painfully I began to relived vivid memories of dark and discouraging times when I felt anger, frustration, and despair. I began to understand when I had often survived the insanity of Somaliland by pushing my questions and struggles out of sight. One way to deal with impossible things is simply not to think of them. I realized that I’ve done that for years. In the moment there wasn’t enough time to figure these things out. I guess I suspected there would be sometime in the future, and now, suddenly and clearly, I understood that this was that time. …”~Nik Ripken