I want to thank all of you for all of the brain fodder you have given me. I read and find potential solutions and sit back and say "What if..." and look and read again. When I did my MS in Chemistry, a failed experiment meant, a broken test tube or my personal time lost. This giant experiment is much more fragile. I fret over each consideration.

I too am coming to the understanding in myself that this venture in participatory research is mainly participation of the individuals who will be living their lives in this village. I am seeing my role in this more as the resource (ทรัพยากร) person who helps provide information for each additional step and the person who looks at what is happening with a "critical" eye to perhaps steer their attention to something particular that seems to have started off course.

So, I do endless what-ifs in my mind so that if the time comes, I have a (hopefully) better than even chance that I at least considered it and have some relevant information stored away to help deal with the quandary.

Wish I had had this much "wisdom", foresight, consideration, planning ... I don't know what to call it ... when I was younger and helping my own son to navigate the channels of growing up and having to make HIS own decisions rather than do that parental thing of trying to make the decision for him. He turned out to be a great man with a heart that never ends and has developed into a man that I love (and like) and respect. And it all happened in spite of me...a true testimony to the resilience and wisdom of children.

Thank you again from the very bottom of my heart. Please keep chiming in ideas that you have because, for my role in this project, I need all of the ideas and wisdom each of you can share. What is the line? "It takes a village to raise a child." The logical extension to that here is that it takes a world community to build a village.