Of The Royal Meadow

(I actually wrote this post awhile back, but I have found myself on both sides of the foot-in-mouth situation lately in touchy situations of my own life or that of others, and for some reason it seemed timely and the concept just struck my funny bone again. I am struck by the similarities of giving birth and sending a kid to college. Maybe you process your stuff with humor as my household does or maybe it will strike a nerve in you somewhere. Either way, I invite you to take it to prayer and ask God what He thinks about the topic.)  There's a phrase out there that I'm sure we've all heard. There is even a song out there that makes a parody of it. The phrase is, "dumb ways to die." We all know what it means, I don't think it needs any explanation, but I think it came about largely because some things are so obvious and yet get repeated generation after generation, in all walks of life, that are so classic, in this case classically thoughtless, that we actually ...