Life Tip #51 - Forget French Wine - Hosea 14
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Countries are too easy. We distill an entire nation-state into a tiny rectangular box with a few colors which we call a “flag.” There are two Germanies and have always been two—Rhine Germany and Elbe Germany, West and East, latinized and Prussianized. When Hosea speaks of Lebanon, he refers to Mount Lebanon, not the Republic of Lebanon. As French vintners know, territory is not the same thing as terroir.
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