Nineveh plains

And that at certain points, these processes, which can be, you know, kind of quite organic would sometimes benefit from a little bit of structure and from a little bit of institutional assistance.

But that's also a kind of complex area where, on the one hand, when you start bringing in official institutions, you start bringing in political actors with political agendas, and they're not always going to map on to, you know, kind of the desires of local communities in a diverse, you know, kind of portion of the country, like the Nineveh Plains, for example.

You know, so there's...

I guess it's a form of Catch-22.

Now, the, like she was saying earlier, and some of you who have gotten to know us, we live now in ancient Babylon.

We actually live in the Nineveh Plains, okay? So ancient Nineveh, which would be modern-day Mosul, w- we're about 40 minutes from there, and we're actually about 40 minutes, uh, um, kind of fun enough, from...

There's this little village, uh, in the Nineveh Plains called Elkosh, and if you were to open your Bibles right now, uh, to the Book of Nahum, the v- opening verse would say something like this: "The Word of the Lord came to the prophet Nahum, the Elkoshite." And, uh, Elkosh is the home village of Nahum, and his, his body is buried there.

His tomb is still there.

We're about 40 minutes from there, and we've gone there m- many, many times.