Signing off on Wal-Mart. Today I am cancelling the $13 per month DVD plan at Wal-Mart. Its a great deal, exceptionally cheap and convenient. Which is the problem.

The problem is "displacement". I actually watch the videos, at a rate approaching 2 per week. That's 3 hours of waking time. That's not good. I have books to read; budgets to consider; articles, blog posts and poems to write; clients to serve; other ministries to pursue; friends and others to whom to listen and listen carefully; music to enjoy and to make; plants and trees and flowers and ideas to to grow; prayers to offer; thoughts to think; a small, still voice to detect; and conversations with fascinating people to begin. Time for this is displaced by someone else's idea of reality. And with many of those folks I probably wouldn't think of having dinner. Why spend time, quality or quantity, with people with whom you wouldn't want to share a meal?

So, sorry Bentonville, I'm outa here.