PC Guide to Holidays
As the Easter holiday (Holy Day) approaches there are stories about how secularists are attempting to “PC” the holiday. Perhaps the saddest story was a Seattle school that reportedly diminished an Easter egg hunt by renaming the eggs as “Spring Spheres.” Spring Spheres! How silly is this? Can there be any holiday symbol more secular than a rabbit that somehow lays colorful eggs filled with candy? I just don’t see any connection between the bunny and either Passover or Jesus dying on the cross. Another thing that bugged me was the whole “sphere” label. Perhaps calling an egg-shaped object a “sphere” is illustrative of the decline of our public learning institutions. It should have been called a “Spring Ovoid.” I’m just saying!
So I’m driving through a more “liberal” neighborhood in Pittsburgh last Saturday and was not surprised to be following a boxy car covered with bumper stickers. Surprisingly the car was not a Subaru Forester. I first noticed the “coexist” sticker on the top center of the rear window. I probably saw thirty of these that day during my travels. The crescent always looks to me like a PacMan-like character ready to consume the other symbols (religions). Perhaps that is an accurate symbolism. As we wove through a somewhat rainy morning (hence the somewhat fuzzy photo – sorry about that) I got a chance to get a closer look at this driver’s array. I started to laugh as I noticed two of the stickers were shockingly contradictory (I’ve enlarged them for you). 
As I get older I seem to have more and more opportunities to attend funerals. I never liked funerals; no one LIKES funerals and I avoided them as much as possible, however, I just returned from a funeral for someone that I never knew or even saw. It was for my daughter’s friend’s grandmother. The last time I saw this young lady was only about a month ago as she and my daughter celebrated their sixteenth birthdays at our house with around thirty of their friends. Quite an emotional contrast.
This morning I got an early start (around 7:30 am) for a road trip and got home around 8:00 pm. As you may have guessed it wasn’t really a pleasure trip even though it was a bright and sunny day. Round trip was around 500 miles traveling 4.5 hours each way for a 2 hour meeting. Sigh. My trip started in Pennsylvania took me into West Virginia to Ohio then back to West Virginia and then to Ohio and back to West Virginia, Ohio, West Virginia and finally home to Pennsylvania. This poor soul got nailed in PA. 
