http://taltybaptistchurch.org/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/embed?src=taltybaptistchurch@gmail.com If you will indulge me, let me share with you a long excerpt from Karen (Isak) Dinesen, the beginning of her superb memoir Out of Africa. It is long and descriptive, but instructive, and I will have some things to say about it: I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong […]
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Mind With Mind.
21-Jun-15“In Pioneeer countries hospitality is a necessity of life not to the travellers alone but to the settlers. A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis […]
Isak Dinesen – or, Karen von Blixen.
20-Jun-15June 15th, Dulles Airport. Starting Out of Africa, which features the untranslated epigraph EQUITARE, ARCUM TENDERE, VERITATEM DICERE. I have to admit it’s hard not to love anyone who starts a book with those words. “To ride a horse, to shoot the bow, to speak the truth.” It’s from Herodotus, describing the Persians – he […]
Pride and The Idea of God.
12-Jul-15buy Pregabalin online “The neighborhood of the Game Reserve and the presence, outside our boundary, of the big game, gave a particular character to the farm, as if we had been the neighbors of a great king. Very proud things were about, and made their nearness felt. The barbarian loves his own pride, and hates, or disbelieves in, […]