As Oregon's new coach says, "Have a nice day, if you want to".      Well, we can have a balkanized country, if we want to.    We are certainly trending that way.    But that's not what I want.    

I have too many loved ones in this world to push them aside over polititical opinions, and certainly I will not intentionally hurt them.   *That does not mean I agree with something abhorent they may suggest, but I try not to make that 'who they are'.    And sometimes we fight with our closest friends and loved ones, it happens.    

But I will not encourage us to be a divided nation.   We are stronger as  united states than we are as divided states no matter what a CNN map may look like.  

I want a nation that looks for common purpose.    I'll feel the same way tomorrow.   I won't happen unless we want it to.