Hermann Rorschach published his self-named “Rorschach Ink Blot Test” in 1921 to identify personality characteristics. As an armchair psychologist, I have created the “Bill Burch Bookshelf Test.” It’s easy to take—just list the items on your bookshelves, and let a friend diagnose how messed-up you are!

For example, here’s a partial list of things you will find on my office bookshelves:

• 18 Bibles
• 15 pictures of family
• 13 Coca-Cola commemorative bottles
• 8 Nativity sets
• 5 ocean polished stones from Iona, Scotland
• 2 Communion patens and chalices
• 1 plug-in, bubbling, Christmas candle
• NCAA baseball from a Georgia Tech foul ball
• Foam bison from a Northside staff retreat—long story!
• Bound collections of “Calvin & Hobbes” and “The Far Side”
• Various cups, including a Dunder Mifflin coffee mug
• Model of Snoopy perched atop his doghouse
• Shadow box with fragments from the Berlin Wall
• Hand painted Easter egg
• Oh, and books!

After scoring the test, it’s obvious that I am a highly intelligent and gifted person of character who is well balanced in every way with no neuroses or psychoses!

How does your list reveal what’s important to you?