I recently heard a discussion on a local sports radio station in which a caller was work-shopping a conundrum from the hosts. The problem, it turned out, was that his son’s scout troop had a camping trip planned for the weekend of the big college football game. The father was desperate to wriggle out of the camping trip so he could watch. All the participants in the discussion were agreed that this was a big problem. Only one of the hosts ventured to mention that, sometimes, a father must accept inconvenience and for the sake of his children and he ought to skip the game and make the best of the camping trip. Watching sports, in the grand scheme of things, isn’t all that important. As I listened to the discussion, at first I thought it was completely absurd. I still do think that, but slowly it dawned on me that I often fall into Read More…

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