Dimensions
127 x 203 x 19mm
Blueprints for a Meaningful Life.
On the day before Christmas, Kenny Kemp raised his father's heavy garage door and began going through 40 years of accumulated materials and belongings. It was four months after his father's death from Lou Gehrig's disease, a painful, troubled time for which there seemed to be no answers.
As Kenny sorted and cleaned, a greater understanding of his loss lowly came to him. Remembrances of his father's love, strength, and quiet courage emerged from carefully preserved mayonnaise jars full of straightened nails; overstuffed, weathered workbench drawers; time-tested tools; and a venerable 30-year-old piece of plywood. Precious relics, each telling in silent eloquence stories about the greatness of a man who had the gift to see something "new and useful inside something old and worn".
Beautifully written, these poignant stories provide a unique perspective on life's fleeting moments and disregarded details. Each chapter begins with one of his father's truisms, which taken together provide the "blueprints for a meaningful life".
'Dad Was A Carpenter' is a remarkable book that asks us to think about all of our relationships in a different way. Fathers and children of all ages everywhere will cherish it for years to come.
