There is a saying in Bor oral tradition, "Achin ke rec e bii e kaman", implying that the coming of the visitor is a blessing. As small radical rats and cats in the house with my ever sipping, nibbling siblings, that proverb was my favourite, ever praying for any distant relative not to pass past our homestead. God, why don't you send one today? And of course, s/he must be a heavy-stomached one, an idiom meaning a dignified guest so that the next worry--but what we have to eat from him--is answered.
