I\u2019m looking for feedback on sections of my new book draft \u201cMeh to Meaningful.\u201d What can you identify with? What is unclear? What do you want more of? What recommendations or ideas do you have? Help me craft a powerful tool for people who feel \u201cmeh\u201d and want to recapture a more meaningful life in this broken world. <\/em><\/p>\n This brief \u201chow to\u201d is currently divided up like so: <\/em><\/p>\n Introduction<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 1: The Faith-Filled Follower<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 2: The Fortified Follower<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 3: The Face-It Follower<\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 4: The Finish-It Follower <\/em><\/p>\n Chapter 5: The Perfect Follower<\/em><\/p>\n \ud83e\udd41 Drumroll, please\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n Hebrews 6:1<\/em><\/p>\n I wanted to be Spiderman, just like many other American boys in the 80s\u2014not the muscular, CGI-buffed Spidermans[1]<\/a> of today; I’m talking about the second-rate Spiderman cartoon of the 80s.\u00a0 I remember little about that show except for two things:\u00a0 1) The creators were so under-funded that they kept using the same four clips of Spiderman swinging from his webs throughout the city; apparently, Spiderman only traversed one square block of Manhattan; 2) Peter Parker\u2019s boss, Mr. Jamison, had the squarest head of anyone I had ever seen in my life.\u00a0 It was like a fed-ex shipping box.\u00a0 I was mesmerized by it, especially because I was at that age when I still had trouble distinguishing between cartoon and live-action.[2]<\/a> \u00a0To me, Mr. Jamison was as real as my grade school principal, Mel Schwartz.\u00a0<\/p>\n I wanted to be Spiderman.\u00a0 Now, in our sensible Midwest home, my mother wasn\u2019t about to waste the hard-earned family dollar on a spiderman costume.\u00a0 Underoos<\/em> were a different matter; those had a practical function, at least.\u00a0 They were a bit more expensive than the tighty-whitees or the sail-boats-and-anchor briefs, but at least they had some use besides imaginative play.\u00a0 But a costume?\u00a0 If you couldn\u2019t wear it to school or church, what was the use?\u00a0 So, Spiderman wore a grubby t-shirt and the shamefully short shorts of the 80s. \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p><\/a>Photo by Steve Wrzeszczynski<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/div>\n I posed atop the Empire State Building\u2014our laundry table\u2014scanning the hectic streets of Manhattan\u2014the unfinished basement that was the winter playground of Midwest children\u2014for signs of trouble.\u00a0 The sounds of my city weren\u2019t car horns and milling crowds, but a rumbling dryer and the occasional hum of the sump pump.[3]<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n The moment I spotted trouble, I would begin to swing from building to building towards the scene of the crime.\u00a0 My dad once asked us kids how the copper water pipes running between the floor joists got bent\u2014hey, a superhero\u2019s gotta get around somehow.\u00a0 I tried crafting my own web-slinger a few times but it projected webs about as far as a hand soap pump, not all that useful when swinging from floor joists to support pillars in the middle of a basement.<\/p>\n