Rainy Days and Mondays Always Make Me Smile

I have to be at work by 9:30 but there's just enough time to sip a little coffee and turn a few pages of a book. Just picked up this new book by Ed Dobson.


















I like it so far. Mostly because it's interesting but also because its a little weird. I've come to appreciate weird. Normal is...well...normal. Ed sat with me for maybe half an hour on a park bench in front of where my sculpture is showing and he talked to me like we had been friends for a long time. He liked my sculpture which made me like him even more. With his ALS, long beard, and red white and blue track suit on, he looked like a homeless man. That made me like him more too. Anyway, the book came out yesterday, I'll let you know what I think. Or you can read it too and tell me.

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  1. ErinSeptember 28, 2009 at 6:13 AM

    Hey, I was just browsing around in search of other creative writers/ artists and stumbled across you blog. I will definitely have to check out this book.. thanks for sharing. :)

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  2. Ken TompkinsSeptember 28, 2009 at 6:49 AM

    James Dobson related ? looks like it could be interesting. Let me know how it is

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  3. RachelSeptember 28, 2009 at 7:19 AM

    I want to read it, too, Kirk. I'm glad he liked your sculpture!

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  4. Faded PaintSeptember 29, 2009 at 5:30 AM

    Ken, No he was the pastor of Calvary Church here in GR for 18 years, was pastor of the year a while back, and he is/was senior editor of Christianity Today. But he has ALS and he and his wife have a big old house in heritage hill and live with some college students. now he attends a mostly african american church downtown and has been challenge for mainstream Christianity to process. good stuff. If you follow the link to his book on amazon there is a little video explaining the book.

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