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. 📚 🙌
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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
Finished reading: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 📚.
What a ride!
C. S. Lewis, We have no right to happiness, God in the Dock:
It is part of the nature of a strong erotic passion—as distinct from a transient fit of appetite—that it makes more towering promises than any other emotion. No doubt all our desires make promises, but not so impressively. To be in love involves the almost irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness. Hence all seems to be at stake. If we miss this chance we shall have lived in vain. At the very thought of such a doom we sink into fathomless depths of self-pity.Unfortunately these promises are found often to be quite untrue. Every experienced adult knows this to be so as regards all erotic passions (except the one he himself is feeling at the moment). We discount the world-without-end pretensions of our friends’ amours easily enough. We know that such things sometimes last—and sometimes don’t. And when they do last, this is not because they promised at the outset to do so. When two people achieve lasting happiness, this is not solely because they are great lovers but because they are also—I must put it crudely—good people; controlled, loyal, fairminded, mutually adaptable people.