The beauty and joy of this place keeps coming on for me, never better realized (so far) than the visit this morning to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to see the baby elephants having their daily introduction to visitors. Each morning for an hour, at 11:00, visitors are allowed to watch these orphaned animals interact …

Somehow “I had a job in Africa” does not have quite the ring of Karen Blixen’s “I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills….” But it must do. And today I was driven to Karen, to see the beautiful Ngong Hills. A suburb of Nairobi, Karen is named for Karen …