I love him like I should,

that beautiful soul named Brian Doyle. And you should love him too. Love him for his incredibly long and listy sentences that lull and lift. Love him for his ability to write really well about subjects like love and grace and family. Love him because he is an honest man who has probably made mistakes and who works hard and loves his wife and kids and who once said that 'the tragedy of death is the loss of story' and at least a few other things really worth hearing and reading and thinking over for yourself.

Here, a few lines from his introduction to Spirited Men: Story, Soul, & Substance:

"Look: We are all, male and female alike, absorbed by what we might be at our best. We are all chasing after the mysterious nutritious song of the Creator. We are all riveted by art, by how human beings mill their unique and idiosyncratic talents into stories and songs and paintings and dances and sculptures and photographs and plays and films and moments that break your heart, make you howl with laughter, make you sense, for a brief and stunning moment, how brave we are, how foolish, how brief, how holy."