(PENSCOLA) --- Hug your mom and smile.
If there were ever a time we needed to read those words, it is now, so thank you to the local who reminded us what really matters in the end, compared to other messages in the Graffiti Bridge Series State of Affairs week three. In the third report of the series, it is obvious that national tensions are local by the ever-changing words spray-painted on the bridge last week.
However, the birth of Raylene rang in the week with joy for the local who is loved enough that someone wants everyone to know.
The sweet sentiment is smeared with black and white by Saturday. Why, no one knows but the artist, who might have been going for an abstract aesthetic.
Since starting the series three weeks ago, it is obvious that the first and second reports are not as angry as last week's, which focused on children, ICE, and the U.S. Commander-in-Chief.
The following picture notes the aforementioned anger.
But again, let's try to focus on the positive in the beginning-of-the-week message below. While many drove under the bridge last Monday on their way to work, Mike and Sue seemingly started their vacation.
Reader, you gotta love that we live where others vacation, truly a blessing.
After the warm Florida welcome, some big bold flowers take over with a cover shot, "Hug your mom, smile" at the bottom right.
Just like real flowers, spray-painted flora dies to adjacent messages around the corner, seen below.
While Pensacola may not have a detention center, it is obvious locals do not agree with how far the federal goverment has gone when it comes to treatment of foreigners, especially children, which makes the below picture pretty clear. If you don't protect them, you're likely to lose your head. Christian or not, you must heed Jesus' words that if it's better to lose your head than hurt a child.
Yes, He really said that: Matthew 18:16.
"But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in and acknowledge and cleave to Me to stumble and sin [that is, who entices him or hinders him in right conduct or thought], it would be better (more expedient and profitable or advantageous) for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be sunk in the depth of the sea."
And if you have a problem with that scripture, take it up with God, not me.
Lastly, this adorable little dude below had his 15 minutes of fame for a couple of weeks.
Then he didn't as predicted by Andy Warhol.
While it's not clear what the artist below intended, I see a neighborhood where everyone cares for one another, even if only on a bridge.
Well, that wraps up the last week of the series, which seems to be growing, for which I am grateful.
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