Chat with Papaw Joe

People talk about Road Signs as if they are the end all be all to life.  What they don't talk about the the discipline required to obey said sign.

Tonight, we examine our responsibility to teach the kids the significance of signs in life and the purpose of obeying them.

Not from the statisticians, pollsters or researchers or even the hi Church muckie mucks who tell you what to think.  This is a blue collar, boots on ground view of why Churches (and religious institutions in general) are seeing a decline in their numbers and whatt they need to look at to change that.

Don`t get it twisted, those fancy letters and sheepskin don't guarantee anything.  The fight for "Living wage" has the younings' a bit confused.  Your not worth anything if your anything isn't working.  
Lets have some difficult discussion on this and adjust our thinking for a better, stronger society. 

Ok, Y'all went and made Papaw angry.  If you cant do it, let Papaw give you the knife hand explanation as to why your jackerated.

We are congratulating our recent graduates, but are we setting them up for success?  Are we setting them up to be successful for them or for US? 

Lets have some dificult discussion around that.

Accountability can be humbling at times.   Our generation was, at one time, demeaned by the previous one, just as that was was by the ones before it.  No one ever had it harder than than the previous generation.

Here, we enter into difficult conversation that brings that into perspective.  Are they lazy, no account and the end of civilization as we know it? Or are they really good at a game we taught them.

Papaw Joe learned  a little something while serving as a Corpsman with the Marine Corps: Shoot Move and Communicate!!! These principles can be applied to almost EVERYTHING we encounter as objective principles.  If you cant do all three, your really just a poser.

At the end of every episode I say "Bow your head and pray to whatever you pray to".  This is why: Religion is your calibration for your Moral Compass.  

After recovering from man flu, Papaw took to the field to help coach little league baseball.  The lessons of teamwork are very humbling and should be a part of every parents playbook.

We previously discussed some basic tenets everyone should know to discuss civics in society, and this just kinda wraps it up and puts it into perspective.