to read, or not to read...is that a question?

Hello people of the blogging kingdom, it has been a while. How were your holiday festivities?

Our Christmas here was small, but I came away with a few gems. One of them is the book that I am currently reading.

[MUD&POETRY

love, sex, and the sacred

by Tyler Blanski

"Singer songwriter Tyler Blanski lends a poet's perspective to what a single, Christian person...finds compelling and sacred about sex, love, God, and everything in between. Humans are both mud and poetry, Blanski tells us, living out of both biological and emotional needs, base desires and soaring aspirations. His memoir reveals a young Christian wrestling with this age-old truth."

PRAISE FOR MUD&POETRY

"Can a young single Christian guy write a great book about sex and marriage? Tyler Blanski has done it! This book is fun but practical, very well-written, with a wonderful lyrical rhythm. Even an old fart like me, married for thirty-two years, found it helpful." - Nate Larkin, founder of the Samson Society and author of Samson and the Pirate monks(and an old family friend :)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

"Tyler Blanski grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated from Perpich Center for Arts Education(2002); studied at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford, England(2005); and holds a bachelor of arts in Christian Studies from Hillsdale College(2006). He is a co founder of Venite Ministries, a Christian spiritual formation resource and retreat center in Minneapolis, and co founder of the Couch Society, a theological forum and journal.

In addition to Mud and Poetry, Tyler has written three other books (including a book of poetry) and released two albums: Think Out Loud: Music Fighting Homelessness and Out from the Darkness. He lives in Uptown Minneapolis, where he manages a small house-painting business, Rembrandt Home Painting; participates in the communal life of an Anglican church; and writes. For more information, visit Tyler's websites: www.mudandpoetry.com or www.tylerblanski.com."] - From the back and inside of Mud&Poetry.

I'm not all that far into the book, but I'm hooked on his writing style. He's personal and humorous. Almost like an old friend you're very comfortable with who is just sitting in a cushy, overstuffed chair in your living room having a nice cuppa coffee with you. I like how he talks about his subjects, that always seemed to be viewed as really taboo, with curiosity, and musings that are just...normal, almost in a thinking-out-loud sort of way.

Not much, but there you go. I wanted to share, so I did. Go read it. Think about it. Chew it over....You don't have to like it, but I thought you might like to see what I'm reading. :)