Driving Caleb home from school yesterday, we drove by a relatively busy intersection at Snelling and Summit Avenue. This intersection is quite close to Macalester College a rather progressive college in the area. For whatever reason, be it the high traffic of the area or the college, this particular corner seems to attract an ongoing steady stream of people holding up homemade signs stating their views about a variety of topics.

Often people are holding up "Free Palestine" signs.

Caleb asked me about the signs yesterday. I explained that it said "Free Palestine." He asked me what Palestine was and why it wasn't free and I told him that was a complicated question that, I have to admit, I don't even really know the answer to.

He then asked why people were standing there with signs. I said that, again, for whatever reason, that was a corner a lot of people seemed stand at to share their opinions and beliefs about things. That the signs people hold there are communicating something about what they believe in. It might be who to vote for, or opinions about a country or policy, but their hope was that in standing there, people would see them and their about their beliefs. And maybe even start to believe them themselves.

Caleb thought about that for a moment and then said.

"So like, I could stand there with a sign that says, "Monsters are real."

And, once again, I was glad I was driving and he couldn't see my amused smile.

As I shared the story with Brian, he laughed as well and said to me, "Yes, Caleb and you'd be right up there with our old friends from Chicago:

"Al-Gore-is-dead-and-a-communist-imposter-is-posing-as-him-dude"

Nattily-dressed-walking-man

And "The Hi Guy"