March 2010
38 posts
Updates!
-I was speaking at a school last week and the head teacher definitely said Obama while introducing me.
We were in Kampala for the inauguration picking up Evan, and bored boda boda drivers would shout “Obama!” at us as we walked down the street. We watched the inaugural address on our Namirembe guest house TV. Surreal.
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Seth Godin, my favorite business blogger, writes about the Montague Bookmill/Lady Killigrew, my favorite bookstore & cafe in the world.
One of the first stops on the ever-popular Bowers tour of Western Mass.
“It should not be physically possible to get from the banks of the Pepani River to Wyoming in less than two days, because mentally and emotionally it is impossible. The shock is too much, the contrast too raw. We should sail or swim or walk from Africa, letting bits of her drop out of us, and gradually, in this way, assimilate the excesses and liberties of the States in tiny, incremental sips, maybe touring up through South America and Mexico before trying to stomach the land of the free and the brave.”
—Alexandra Fuller, Scribbling the Cat
“[A]s long as I am responding to a cause it will not affect my entire life, my very breathing. It is only when I see hunger or thirst in one human being, it is only when I see discrimination and injustice in all its horrendous particularity as I walk along Broadway, that my very life can be changed. If it was necessary for God to come to us as one of us, then it is only in such particularity that I can understand incarnation.”
—Madeleine L’Engle, The Irrational Season
