The Law Of Diminishing Returns by Violet Augusta

Author:Violet Augusta
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: culture, literature and fiction, cozy fiction, schizophrenia mental illness mental health, friendship adventure destiny, perfections and imperfections, relationships and love

Subject: re: Hard to fathom…

Sent: 11/21/2002 7:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time

From: [email protected]

Meg,

Hello, sweet girl. Thanks for your greetings. As I’m sure your dad told you, we did have to evacuate the Baptist Center for three longs weeks in October. It was a devastating blow to our work on bible translation but even more so to the psyche of all the volunteers who live and work here but who are not used to the turmoil that this long conflict has caused. Our friends in Bouake were evacuated as well but they had to follow their own path to temporary safety while we were able to take refuge in Abengourou near the border of Ghana. Uncle Ernest has an old military buddy there whose home is like a fortress. As you can imagine, we are just now resuming a little bit of normalcy in our everyday life. All of our American interns have returned to the safety of their homes in the U.S. but a new batch will be coming soon to help us with our work when the US State Department says that it is safe to travel.

It’s been a while since your e-mail so I hope you didn’t send any food. Only the good Lord would know where it ended up. The shipping expenses are excessive since they are based on the weight of the food and roads have opened back up to commerce for the most part so we are fine. We were even able to get a turkey for our own Thanksgiving celebration that we plan to hold here in a few days. I must say it’s something I look forward to celebrating every year.

Save your shipping fees for receiving Vatusia’s fabrics. That is more important. She is doing well, always putting up a brave front, although the stress of being apart from Anjani is starting to show. Ernest and I tried to get her to evacuate with us to Abengourou, but she refused. She is a very proud woman. I don’t think she’d realized and/or thought through the fact that, without having her own computer or mobile phone, she would be out of touch with Anjani as long as we were gone. She was actually at the Baptist Center waiting for us when we returned. Meg, I can tell you, it was one of the most pathetic things I have seen, even though she tried hard not to show it. She didn’t want to use our guesthouse without our explicit permission, even though she has stayed there many times throughout the years when visiting Anjani at the center, so she slept for two days under the porch awning. She was about to head back to her hut when we pulled up late in the afternoon a couple of weeks ago, and once we went inside, kept pacing around the office as poor Ernest did his best the get the Internet connection up and running so she could see if Anjani had sent any e-mails, which of course, good boy that he is, he had.

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