Sturtz Stuff

We humans are built for connection. We were made to connect. We like hanging out with our friends and family. We like posting pictures and comments on Facebook for others to see. We enjoy sharing a laugh with others via a text message. We really seem to seek out and desire a connection with fellow human beings.   This is no great insight. We have known this since our elementary school days and our exploits in trying to fit in, get along and otherwise connect with classmates. We all want to be in a place like the TV show Cheers from the 80’s and 90’s. As the theme song for the show says we all want to go “ Where everybody knows your name; And they're always glad you came .” I do not know, nor honestly desire to know, all of the details surrounding Manti Te’o’s fake girlfriend hoax. I am more interested in the reality that Manti Te’o’s situation seems to highlight. Manti Te’o made a “love connection” with a person that he had never meet in person. In fact the person Te’o claimed...

Don’t know if you have ever seen the TV show called Six Feet Under . It was a show about a family that own and operated a funeral home. Each episode started with a short vignette in which someone would die. The character that died in the opening vignette would become the body at the family funeral home for the rest of the episode. There are about six main characters on the show. However, the way that the show was shot, written and produced it made sure that there was one main character that was above all the others and in the forefront of everything that happen to all the other characters. That main character was death. Death was at the forefront of every show. It made the show very challenging to watch. It confronts you with something that we spend most of our lives attempting to ignore. The reason I bring this up is because this is very much like the book of Ecclesiastes. The book’s main character is death. The book constantly brings up the issue of death. Which is a reason why t...