It is great to get up and discover what one might learn today. I always told my high school students that that was the reason I came to school each day, and I promised them that the day there was nothing more to learn, I wasn't coming again. Happily, it never happened until the moment I decided to recycle myself into a newer learning experience.

And in a recent news article I discovered what could have been my motto, although I had no way of knowing it then. It is ABO. Borrowed from the electronics' world, it is translated as: Always Be Obsolescing.

We know about it. Before we fully unwrap that new gadget, it is already old model. One gets the feeling of never quite catching up. That is as the manufacturers would have it.

My initial interest was piqued by an article about 3-D TV, something that "they" predict will be universally available by 2015. No, you can't really upgrade that large screen TV you just installed because that would require a new monitor, an infrared signaling system and, of course, new glasses at $70 a pair. In addition, you need to get a charger for those glasses, one more thing to plug in to the delight of the local power company.

AVATAR has certainly whetted many an appetite for a 3-D world in our homes. Just imagine that football coming straight toward your recliner.

The manufacturers suggest moving your current TV to another room and upgrading to this new world for a $4000 minimum. And by 2020 so many folks will have done this that the glasses will be gone and something new will be in place. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, look around your house, check your storage bin, and keep on with the ABO. Do we have a choice?

And doesn't it apply to politics and religion also? Didn't Jesus say: "You have heard that it was said... but I say to you...?"

Rereading the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew's gospel, I do believe that Jesus knew about ABO too. I am going to read chapter 5 again.