Things I Never Knew Existed - Only in the Neighborhood

#1
Yesterday, driving down Lake, when I noticed a store offering a sale on baby blankets with this image on them Yes that's right, Scarface baby blankets, only $20.

Because you want your baby to learn to shoot guns while smoking a cigarette perhaps? I'm not sure.

#2
Also on Lake is a new store advertising Hambuguesas y Hotdogs en estilla Mexicana. I will be checking this out, because I have no idea what a Mexican style Hotdog is, but I love pork products and Mexican food, so I'm sure it will be delightful.

Not within our realm of thinking

OH...........MY...........GOSH

My coworker just showed me this. Costco stores are pulling "Lil' Monkey" brown skinned baby dolls from their shelves. I am working on being less judgmental, but HOW DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THIS IS OFFENSIVE!?

Mary Gustaff, CEO of The Brass Key, said her company did not intend
to offend anyone.

"It's not within our realm of thinking," she said.
"We just don't think like that."

This is why, in the 21st century we NEED to be surrounded by people who have different life and cultural experiences than us. Some things are beyond our natural "realm of thinking." We'll make fewer stupid mistakes like this if not everyone thinks in the same realm as us. Churches, schools, businesses, and non-profits NEED diversity to survive.

Chris Rice's lament for Detroit

Chris Rice (the author of Grace Matters, More Than Equals and Reconciling All Things) published a lament for Detroit on his blog today.

In the article, Rice referst to teaching the art of lament in his college class.

Lament - it's not a word we like. We don't like feeling sad, we don't like sitting with the hard things. We want to move on.

Read Chris's post, and the Time Magazine photo essay that inspired it.