Elsewhere in the real world...
Dec. 4th, 2006 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annwfynJust spoke to my Dad, who's just arrived home from Sri Lanka.
Whilst he was out there, he and my stepmother met up with Chari and Chuli, who are old friends of the family from my family's time living out there. It turns out that Chari recently nearly got blown up by a suicide bomber in Colombo. The bomb went off, but he was just out of range. He was, however, close enough that his car got badly damaged by flying shrapnel and debris.
It's odd - there's this big scary world out there, and we just ignore it at times and focus on the important things in our own safe spaces, which are really quite small in comparison.
Whilst he was out there, he and my stepmother met up with Chari and Chuli, who are old friends of the family from my family's time living out there. It turns out that Chari recently nearly got blown up by a suicide bomber in Colombo. The bomb went off, but he was just out of range. He was, however, close enough that his car got badly damaged by flying shrapnel and debris.
It's odd - there's this big scary world out there, and we just ignore it at times and focus on the important things in our own safe spaces, which are really quite small in comparison.
