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Out of Africa, Redux…

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

 

We watched “Out of Africa” again the other evening.  And I, being a certain kind of woman, obviously heaved and sighed throughout with devout admiration of the indomitable Karen Blixen. 

If you haven’t seen it lately, you should of course stop reading this and go rent it. Not just because Meryl Streep is as inspirational as Blixen herself must have been, and not just because Robert Redford is maddeningly fabulous.  

But because Kenya is absolutely palpable in it.

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The Times We Didn’t Ask For

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

From a perch on the roof of the all but deserted Sammo Guest House in Cape Coast, Ghana, I knew I probably wasn’t where I was supposed to be. 

Meaning, I guess, that I’d taken a wrong turn somewhere on the road to the quaint beach villages bragged up by guidebooks and travel blogs. Instead, I sat in a slowly bustling African port town where the ocean was used for sustenance and bathing and the concept of sunbathing was laughable…

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