It seems as though I have exhausted all my cleverness a few posts ago, at least when it comes to the titles of these posts (not that they were really all that clever to begin with). Slow Dirty Education? The Spirit of Home Goes Bad? Yeah, neither of those seem particularly appropriate. Oh well, I guess I'll have to let my imagination recharge. But please don't let my failings alter your perception of today's three Blooker entries.
A Dirty Old Man Goes Bad: John Cowart's 2005 Blog
by John Cowart - www.cowart.info/blog
$16.95 (Blue Fish Books/Lulu) Buy it
Blooker category: Non-Fiction
"A Dirty Old Man Goes Bad records the humor and happiness of a frustrated writer. John’s daily blog, Rabid Fun, bears the caption, 'A befuddled ordinary Christian looks for spiritual realities in day to day living.' Sounds like a downer. Yet, over 104,000 readers from 102 countries visited his website in 2005. A Dirty Old Man Goes Bad reveals John’s happy joys as well as his struggles with temptation over bitterness, resentment, pornography, Microsoft, depression, laziness, Google, Blogger, pettiness, sloth, Krispy Kreme Donuts, and anger. All in all, this is a real-time love story told day by day by a man who loves reality."
The Spirit of Education
by jeff white - www.spiritofeducation.com
$20.00 (Dirt Sheep Press/Lulu) - Buy it
Blooker Category: Non-Fiction
"What is education? It's a term we use every day to describe the process of putting 25 or 30 young souls into a cinder block room and filling their heads with what-all over the course of the first quarter of their lives. But is that education? If it's not, what is it? And what are its consequences? Education--true education--is not a process of pouring in from without, but of calling forth what is within. It's not a process of memorization or socialization or instillation, but a process of nurturing, of allowing, of evoking. It's a process of bringing forth the person one is meant to be. The Spirit of Education attempts to begin anew our conversations about education: what it is, and where it might take us."
Slow Road Home: A Blue Ridge Book of Days
by Fred First - fragmentsfromfloyd.com
$15.95 (Goose Creek Press) Buy it
Blooker category: Non-Fiction
"Following the sudden realization at fifty-four that his working life had left him unfulfilled in those needs that mattered most, First leaves that world behind. Tracking the quit turns of solitude's seasons, these short essays capture the daily miracles of an extraordinary time in a beautiful place. First finds himself home at last in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia...Why, he wonders, do some places call to us so strongly that we cannot ignore their pull?"
Thank you for the nice display you made for my blook. You make my work seem not awful. I appreciate your interest.
Posted by: john cowart | September 21, 2006 at 11:18 AM