Currently watching: The House of the Spirits S1E1, Rosa the Beautiful 🍿

I feel it will be wiser to stop and read the book first. Something has always gotten in the way of my reading the book, but this time round I feel particularly hopeful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Works and Days:

It was the deep to-day which all men scorn; the rich poverty which men hate; the populous, all-loving solitude which men quit for the tattle of towns. He lurks, he hides, — he who is success, reality, joy, and power. One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday. ‘T is the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. ’Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior. In the Norse legend of our ancestors, Odin dwells in a fisher’s hut and patches a boat. In the Hindoo legends, Hari dwells a peasant among peasants. In the Greek legend, Apollo lodges with the shepherds of Admetus, and Jove liked to rusticate among the poor Ethiopians. So, in our history, Jesus is born in a barn, and his twelve peers are fishermen

Haya! Just finished reading this. If you were a delegate in the Commission Conference 2024 by FOCUS Kenya, you have this book tacked away or shelved somewhere, here’s a word from me if you care for it: please read the book. 📚 🙌

Finished reading: Africa to the Rest by Yaw Perbi, Sam Ngugi. Such an encouraging read!📚

It usually happens that I procrastinate about reading a book, but once I get into it, I feel like I should have started reading it much sooner. This feels so refreshing and illuminating🙌 I hope i find more Kenyan biographies and memoirs as good as or even better than this. Recommendations? 📚

Finished reading: Keys to the Deeper Life by A. W. Tozer. Very sobering.📚

Just finished reading: Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston. Clearly this one here is a preparation for more comprehensive titles. Also, it is the kind of book one ought to return to several times since it isn’t as if I am suddenly better at arguments for reading it once. It’s pretty brief and concise, which I think makes it a very good entry into logic and arguments.📚

Finished reading: The Voyage of the Downtreader by Clive Staples Lewis 📚

Thomas Pynchon’s review of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera

Turn your eyes to Jesus 🎶