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Turkey

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Just.  Be. Thankful.

All the time.

Today especially, because it has become a day of dedication in our national conscience.

But don’t only be thankful, because an expression of thankfulness is in vain if not living and active.

Thankfulness involves not taking our blessings for granted. It means not abusing them. It means not wasting them. It means not using them only for yourself. It means using them wisely.

The number one thing people seem to be thankful for on this day, at least, what we express, is family.  If we are thankful for family, we will show it.

Let’s all think about that as we sit with family to eat.  And not just our family.

Think about that when you wake up to shop for a great deal for your family tomorrow.  Think about that as you make the decisions that you do in order to obtain those gifts.  After all, if you’re going through all this to get a good deal, you’re not doing it for family.  You’re doing it for yourself.  So don’t go overboard, and don’t forsake your family or your integrity.

Happy Turkey!

Electing Faithfulness: Part 1: Considering Third Roads

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Considering Third Roads
or
What’s Wrong with These Guys?
or
Egyptians or Amorites?  Who’s it Gonna Be?

You heard a debate the other day.  It was between two guys likely to take the role of single individual holding the most official power in America.  Seems like a big deal.  It is, in a way, but when you look at the big picture, it ends up not being much of one at all.  Still, a pretty big deal.

So many of you will likely think of picking choice A or B.  I see why.  I mean, this is how the game seems to work, right?  People give you two choices and you pick one of them.  And to be fair, in all likelihood, it will be one of these two fellas.  That’s how the system tends to work.  I will tell you now that I don’t intend on voting for either of these guys.

One way in which it has been explained is this:

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Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Sponges

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Sponge Facts:

When you scrub your floors, decorate the wall with paint, or just wash your car, you may be using an organism to do the job.  Many people do not know that sponges are animals.  As a matter of fact, sponges are the simplest of organisms in the animal kingdom.  The aquatic sponges all belong to the phylum Porifera, which means “pore bearers”, and is the only phylum in the animal subkingdom Parazoa.

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The bullies apologize, the town bullies

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Here’s an update on the bully bus story.
http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/47917346#47917346 

The one negative thing I can say is this: The town hasn’t learned their lesson.
The parents are failing still.  Too many people thought the solution would be to call and bully the families of the bullies.  To excuse bullying in one case is to open the door for others.  An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.  Shame on you, town of Greece.  Named after the inventors of democracy, as in “people having power”,  clearly you have abused your freedom of speech, and you do not deserve the power given to you, but instead you carelessly extort the power you have to hurt or heal others with speech.  Apology is what breaks the cycle of verbal abuse, not more verbal abuse.

Enter the Goober

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Behold, a great goober!

Me GravThus has been signaled my new (and more permanent) blog, as well as the welcoming of my new son to the world (for those of you who didn’t know, I had a son a month ago today).

Our first Father’s Day brings a reflection of the first month: Eat, sleep, lose sleep, adore baby, watch baby eat and sleep and poop.  Stay up letting him sleep on me while I play Skyrim so his mother can sleep.  Go to class to learn how to teach grammar—not the Miss Fiddlesnitch way, banging a ruler on the desk and telling the little farmer’s son there’s something wrong with him for saying “ain’t”, but rather teaching kids to code-switch to talk like Miss Fiddlesnitch so prejudiced crackers can give them a job.

So on Father’s Day four generations assembled in one house: Noah, myself, my dad, my granddad.  My mother took a picture.  It was monumental to say the least.  I really am ushering in a new chapter in my life.  Gonna take a few things more seriously.  Gonna take a few things less seriously.  Gonna take time to rethink some things.  Begin some things anew.  And some things gonna keep doing the same, and not cease at.

I’ll talk on some things or others.  The topics will relate mostly to the spiritual, but what I have learned is that all things are spiritual, have a spiritual dimension.  There is no such thing as a “spiritual topic”, but rather topics that we either suck the spirit out of or simply talk on without regards to their spiritual dimension or application.  I’ll ramble some days and tweet the other.  That reminds me, up next is a twitter.  I need to crawl out of this cave.  My grandfather is catching up with me, learning how to use e-mail and whatnot.  Just yesterday he was sending smoke signals.  I can’t imagine what Noah will be using when he’s my age.

So welcome to my new blog.  Read.  Interact.  Share.  And by all means, keep your comments to yourself.  Then, after about fives minutes have passed, return to your computer, review your comment, and post it.  This isn’t YouTube, for crying out loud.  There are consequences.

-Caleb Coy signing out