Going Garver.

I really, really hate having to do this, but I'm going on hiatus until September 1st. We're in the middle of an amazing, and amazingly packed, summer here with our mission. Consequently, my blog has shifted from a fun hobby to a nagging responsibility I try to cram in before bed each night. Strangely, that takes some of the verve out of the site content.

So we'll be back in September with a twinkle in our eye and acid in our pen.

If anyone's interested in keeping up with events this summer, we're putting the finishing touches on our latest prayer letter. Drop me an email at discoshaman@saintly.com and we'll be happy to fire one out to you.

I'm really going to miss all of you. Let me go ahead and sign off before I get all bathetic on you. Peace, love, keep fighting the good fight, and all of that.

Yours,
John

3rd Culture Kids

One of the things they warn you about when going into our line of endeavor, is that your kids won't fully belong to any one culture. They'll exist more or less in both your homeland's way of life, and that of your host country. They call these children "third culture kids." Every once in a while I get a glimpse of it. For example, the day Tennyson found a quarter and announced, "Look everybody, an American kopeck!"

Today Johnny excitedly explained this game some American girls had taught him. With no sense that such a thing is widespread back home, he told us quite solemnly, "They call their game 'dodgeball.'" I was reminded of Dr. Evil making quotation marks in the air and saying, "It's a thing I've chosen to call a LASER."

Addendum- Sorry to anyone waiting for a response on past threads. Occupied with both real life work and a familial re-enactment of the Black Plague. Fun.