Book Report

I have a new favorite book. It's called Through Painted Deserts by Donald Miller. A couple weeks ago I was feeling homesick whenever I got tired, and I was trying to decide which of my books to read by flipping through some of the introductions. Here's what I found in this particular book: "I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing, and I want to change because it is God's way....Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons." Since then I have relinquished most of my homesickness for reasons that I think are independent of the book, but it still made for an excellent read. It tells the story of two friends on a road trip with no real plan, and it is laid out in well-written, attention-grabbing, thought-provoking, hilarious fashion. The author describes his own realizations along the way about life and God that really resonated with me. I highly recommend it.

In other news, I performed my first clean up of a dead mouse today after a bitter defeat in two-out-of-three, shoot-after-three rock-paper-scissors. Please, everyone, a moment of silence.