"You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way again."
-Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Tomorrow I leave for Uganda. I'll spend the summer in Gulu assisting in a study to measure the efficacy of art therapy with formerly-abducted kids. The project is funded by MHIRT, the Minority Health International Research Training, and run by faculty from Christian Brothers University (CBU) out of Memphis, Tennessee.
Join me over the next 2 1/2 months as I return to my second home in Uganda for the fourth time and explore more deeply the power of creativity in peacebuilding and healing. There are sure to be some familiar faces in these blog posts, but also plenty of new friends.
For more information about me or what I've done in Uganda in the past, e-mail me at mcclain.lindsay@gmail.com or visit the Jazz for Justice Project at http://www.knoxjazzforjustice.org/.
[Note: This summer's research isn't affiliated with the University of Tennessee or the Jazz for Justice Project. The art therapy study I'm participating in is a project of MHIRT (http://www.cbu.edu/mhirt/), the National Institute of Health (NIH), and CBU.]
