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Happy Thanksgiving from 58th and Broadway at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! Here is Micah happy:

And here is Micah not so happy as the Georgia Tech band goes by:

The Chicago Tribute reports: Old rivals Obama, McCain discuss working together.
“Obama’s transition staff released a joint statement, describing the meeting as a “productive conversation” that opened the possibility for cooperation in the days and months ahead.”
…Just in case there were any doubts that McCain and Obama shared identical priorities and offered voters no choices.
Obama has [...]

My son is named Micah Nathaniel Rose. Micah, after the prophet. Nathaniel, after the author. Though I admit, we simply wished for a literary middle name and until today, I had never read a word penned by Hawthorne.
Several of his retellings of Greek myth can be found in a volume of children’s classics I purchased [...]

Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.
Since the election the talk of the Christian blogosphere has been a reminder and call to submit to authorities as the Bible tells us in Romans 13. Any [...]

(sorry, I was looking for a good voting picture and, well… )
This morning I cast my vote. The line started at the school, wrapped around the entire block and ended back at the school. I got some good reading in. I got to use an old fashioned lever based voting booth for the first time.
I [...]

In a recent dinner discussion with a friend, he articulated the hope in Obama the way most seem to: feeling that people will be relieved and the world will be more willing to like us. Susanna made an excellent point. In 2000 people were putting all their hopes in George Bush to change everything. And [...]