My 15 Minutes
My friend Tony Jones emailed me from Washington, D.C. and two other friends called to relish the brief moments when my book, SOUL GRAFFITI was in the top 1,000 on Amazon and in the top 100 for Religion & Spirituality books. Tonight its back down in the 1,700’s, but it was fun to have a few moments when it seemed like there was a spike in popularity.
This past weekend Luis and Heloize visited us from Sao Paulo, Brazil. I met Luis through my friend Sandro Baggio and they stayed with us for four days. Heloize doesn’t speak much English so she was very relieved and elated when we took her to have dinner with friends who speak Portugese on Saturday night. Luis and Heloize are part of what seems to be the Emerging Church conversation in Brazil– people searching for an authentic and missional path of faith beyond the crazy consumer hype of the health and wealth mega churches in South America.
This afternoon a group of us from SEVEN went to Garfield Park to play games– and hoping to connect with neighbors. We played Frisbee Football along with a new friend who was at the park. We are trying to be more intentional about being involved in our neighborhood together. We plan to hang out in the park every Thursday afternoon.
Tonight I took Isaiah out for a dad & kid date and suprized him by taking him to see Spiderman 3, which he is very crazy about. Then we went to a comic book store and out to Vietnamese at Tulan for dinner. Isaiah and I are good movie watching buddies– and he can talk for hours about movies he’s seen. I like watching Isaiah watch movies even more than watching the movie myself. He really lives in the action, characters and drama of the story, (except for the mushy parts where they kiss).
