Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Thanksgiving (literally giving thanks)

i'm thankful for so much.
i'm thankful my wife's a catholic.
i'm thankful her family's catholic as well.
i'm thankful the conservative evangelical church banned me from their midst.
i'm thankful that i no longer have to make sense of a group which predominantly rejects women as taking any leadership roles in their group.
i'm thankful that i no longer belong to a group which accepts women as servers (i believe the term is deaconess) but banned from having ANY position which allows them to exersize authority over the male gender.
i'm SO thankful and grateful that i don't nor ever did embrace Sarah Palin as a viable candidate for the number two (i said number two) position in our nation.
i'm SO thankful and grateful that i'm not a conservative evangelical christian attempting to make any sense WHATSOEVER with the concept of rejecting leadership roles for women in my church yet embracing a woman as vice president with the hope and breathless anticipation of her ascending to the office of president.
i'm so thankful that i don't have to act stupid by submitting to the authority of a woman in the highest elective/non-elective office in the free world yet can't EVER justify submitting to the authority of a woman in my small, and rather insignificant congregation.
i'm thankful that i don't have to be stupid....my stupidity is a choice.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

the deer viewer

i had to do something with my car...
i had to do something with my car because i wasn't paying for it but didn't want to give it back either (some head scratchin' methinks)
i had to do something with my car to hide it and decided to try and hide it in a shed by the house i was hoping to rent.
i had to open the shed door in order to hide my car from my creditors...
i opened the shed door and discovered in graphic terms that my landlord is a hunter...not a gatherer.
i opened the shed door to hide my car from my creditors and viewed several slain deer hanging from the rafters.
my car would have fit into the shed in spite of the fact that several slain deer were hanging from the rafters...(hang me in the wind to dry)
the entrails from said deer were piled beneath them in such a way as to block any possible entrance into the shed.
the entrails formerly belonging to the hanging deer were piled and spilt in the dead of winter and were therefore a formidable frozen hill/mound.
i decided to drive my car to the bank....drop it off...and NOT move into the house.
i think i'm better off.
Merry Thanksgiving!