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If you read one book this year….
Dave Eggers What is the What is beyond extraordinary. It is a multi-storied account of what happens to people when civil war overtakes them. And somehow, against the odds, against the most inhuman opposition, humanity survives and refuses to give up.
The confusing and bewildering story of the Sudan civil struggle is told through the story of one Lost Boy’s journey which becomes almost mythic in the telling.
More on Lost Boy, Valentino Achak Deng, here
Southern Sudan 1993 photographed by Kevin Carter
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Now playing: The Weepies – World Spins Madly On
via FoxyTunes
For some reason this post regularly attracts visitors to this blog, so this otter related serotonin rush is for y’all.
Warning: There is no defence against the power of pair-bonded otters.
The group that whips the weekly worship into shape in church got asked this question recently: ‘How far are our psalms, hymns and spiritual songs expressing a sufficiently wide spectrum of spiritual experience and aspirations or are we too narrow and self-absorbed?’
Narrow? Self-absorbed? Moi?
