Ryan Day, Head Coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team, required all of his players to read Rick Fields’ Chop Wood Carry Water. When I read about this in the Wall Street Journal, I was curious about why a coach would require his team to read this particular book. Once I started reading Chop Wood Carry Water, it all made sense.
Chop Wood Carry Water presents many stories illustrating how you should deal with the problems we all encounter in Life. Glance at the Table of Contents below and you’ll see the topics Chop Wood Carry Water addresses with illustrative stories and aphorisms.
I was impressed with Rick Fields’ choice of stories to reveal the messages he was trying to communicate. The hundreds of aphorisms–from famous people to infamous people–fill the margins of this book with Good and Profound Advice. Well worth a look! GRADE: B+
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chop Wood Carry Water Introduction — xi
1. Beginnings — 1
2. Learning — 19
3. Intimate Relationships — 35
4. Sex — 59
5. Family — 79
6. Work — 105
7. Money — 127
8. Play — 143
9. Tuning the Body — 159
10. Healing — 181
11. Technology — 203
12. The Earth — 219
13. Social Action — 235
14. Inner Guidance — 249
15. Perils of the Path — 287
Afterword — 287
I’ve both carried water and chopped wood! Tougher to carry than water is a block of ice three feet long in 100-degree heat! I did that! Sometimes I think you’re one of twenty people in the world who reads these books, and I thank you for relieving me of the burden!
Bob, the world is a complicated place so I have to read a lot of unusual books to try to understand it.
Not really my type of book. I’m leaving tomorrow to go with Larry to his daughter’s investiture as permanent pastor of the church she’s been a temporary pastor at. Sadly one of his adorable dog passed away this morning. Moon was such a sweet girl. Her mother Blondie is going to be lonely. I’m hoping to convince him to adopt a shelter puppy. Blondie is the shoenapper.
Maggie, we have a friend who was a pastor of a Lutheran church. She encountered a lot of push-back from some of the worshipers because they wanted a “male” pastor. Have a safe trip!