Long Shadows of Childhood

I am going this week to a place I have never been before. Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. I will participate in an event unlike anything I have done. I already feel conflicted. Part of me wants to go. And part of me wants to stay home. Part of me wants to go support the Peace Vigils in Los Alamos. Part of me does not. The part that wants to go says this is important work. So important that I cannot think of anything more important that I should be doing. The future of the human species is at stake. Sorta puts things in perspective....