Blue like jazz, et al….
February 20th, 2006Figured I’d let you in on what I’ve been reading as of late..
“Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality” (Donald Miller)
This book was a page turner -
I went through it relatively quickly…
not that it wasn’t profound, but I just enjoyed the ride…
I keep thinking “damn, I wish I could write this kind of stuff, all simultaneously cool and insightful as it is…”
then I realize that I’m in a job where stories are the enemy,
the useless chaff I sort through to get to the wheat -
the real issue at hand, the problem I have to solve…
This week, I started to read one of his other books…
“Searching for God Knows What” (Donald Miller)
This is one you chew on, just a few pages at a time…
like when he uses a men’s room encounter with Santa Claus, a Smiths song, a self serve car wash, and an encounter with a poetry quoting debate guy who got all the girls, to explain why we do almost everything we do and how both Shirley Maclaine and Jerry Falwell get God wrong….
here’s another one I’ll have to get….
“To Own a Dragon: Reflections On Growing Up Without A Father” (Donald Miller, John MacMurray)
Mom and I left Dad before I was 2,
so I have no memory of him, and may never have one,
now that he’s dead….
don’t know if that’s a good thing….
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