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Rachel’s World has started a little trend: photographing her journey to Starbucks, in Sheffield UK. Deana photojournaled her neighborhood Starbucks; StaciJoy photojournaled her Starbucks trek in Thousand Oaks, California. [ht: Alex McManus]
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I just had to say how wonderful your post was, although it does make me really home-sick for Sheffield, even though it’s not really home anymore! I’m so excited about what God is doing with Mosaic, and I can’t wait to hear more.

I really hope I can see you guys soon, it’s been too long! Time for another committee wedding, but I don’t know who’s turn it is next

Love and blessings, Em xxx

On the surface it may not be much to look at… you have to live here for awhile to appreciate it.

The most common factoids I like to spew:
- Bob Hope played his first game of golf in Winnipeg.
- Winnipeg is a hotbed for music: The Guess Who, BTO, Chantal Kreviazuk, Crash Test Dummies, Neil Young, too many more to mention. Randy Bachman, formerly of The Guess Who and BTO, owns a house two blocks away from mine.
- Most restaurants per capita of any North American city. The actor John Candy was known to regularly have food couriered to him at film sets all over the world from a restaurant not far from my house.
- The 911 emergency call system was invented in Winnipeg.
- Coldest city in the world. (Coldest median temperature of any city with a population over 500,000).
- One hour drive to Grand Beach (Often rated one of the top ten beaches in North America).

To understand a little more of the spiritual climate in Winnipeg… and if you’re extremely bored… you could peruse a post I did in the past:

http://prismhead.blogspot.com/2005/06/peg.html#comments

Also a recent comment on Octavio’s xanga blog. (scroll to the bottom - I’m the second last comment)

http://www.xanga.com/ocmartinez/419347298/there-is-no-9-to-5your-life-from-8-am-to-7-pm.html

These posts just scratch the surface of what’s going on here. I can be a bit like the over enthusiastic neighbours who excitedly show the proverbial 2 hour slideshow that they think is amazing but everybody else is bored to tears.

Greg

-Mel

When I was a student, I used to work in an extremely diverse office. We had it all: genders, ethnic backgrounds, religions, sexualities…you name it. At first we tiptoed around things…by the time I graduated and stopped working there, we made the most awful jokes to each other (but only about a minority that was present. If, say, no Catholics were around, then jokes about Catholics were off-limits). It was hi-lar-ious. It wouldn’t have worked, though, if anybody had had any doubts about how accepting and caring each of us were. Anyway, all of that to say that since then I have found sweeping judgements to be incredibly funny. I am now the Queen of the Sweeping Statement. All hail!

LOL I actually do prefer organic foods, but they are so much more expensive (at least in here in America) that I feel guilty buying them because I work with low-income families and people who live quite literally on the street, who I know would love to be able to afford even the chemically-treated-genetically-modified kind of food. My mother’s family was quite poor when she was a little girl; it breaks my heart to think of other little girls like her. Today while I was down at the food pantry my organization runs, a young woman brought in her two-year-old-daughter. She had an awful cough and a runny nose and looked so hungry. But she said “please” and “thank-you” when I handed her a sandwich and some cookies. I’m still trying to figure out what to do with this.

-Mel

Greg- I’d like to visit Winipeg too! What’s it like?

Mel - I would love to hear more about the cafe your church runs… any pics or website, etc?

Greg from Winnipeg

-Mel