Lessons in Resentment, Resilience

For an 85-year-old man in a small Kenyan village, a letter from New York is like a missive carrying the fingerprint of God. The paper has stretched his mind's horizon far beyond the dirt tracks and rough wooden huts that surround him. He has wrapped it in plastic and takes it out reverently.

By Robyn Dixon, Times Staff Writer

February 6, 2005