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The electricity just flickered back on as the sun sank into the depths of the Congo River.  This is a good because it means I can read tonight.  The electricity has been less stable than usual these days.  Candlelight doesn’t cut it for reading.  The other option is my halogen headlamp.  That lights up a book bright as day and simultaneously functions as a homing beacon for every living flying insect in the house.  Yep, draws every one right onto my forehead.  There’s not room for all of them between me and my book.

In the spirit of elementary school show and tell, here are the books on my reading stack in no particular order than bottom to top:

• Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith – Anne Lamott
• A Severe Mercy – Sheldon Vanauken
• Let Your Life Speak – Parker J. Palmer
• Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving From Affluence to Generosity – Ronald J. Sider
• A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Social Imagination – Emmanuel M. Katongole
• Paris: The Biography of a City – Colin Jones

Time for a delicious dinner of spinach porridge and bread followed up with some reading, both courtesy of the electric company.