Enough!

Last night in Peoria a prayer vigil was held in honor of DeAndre Allen, an 18-year old who was killed on New Year's Day in Peoria. (Here's a link to a Peoria Journal Star article). The organizer was Carl Cannon -- a "LifeBridger." I'm so proud to say that Carl and I are becoming friends -- he's such a force in our community for justice and reconciliation!!

Life in Peoria

For those of you that don't live here, this is what it's like to live in this barbarian wilderness that we know and love and call central Illinois...

A good 3 years after the rage...we got a Krispy Kreme. (They actually started building it 2 years ago, but then Mr. Atkins destroyed Krispy Kreme's stock price and things got held up -- so it finally opened at 6am this morning.)

Of course lines are out the door this morning and on principal I refuse to stand in line for a donut! I did promise Caleb that we would go sometime over Christmas break though!