From unexpected places

Sometimes little lessons come from unexpected places.

Like "Bob's Burgers." I openly admit love for this show. Yes, it's PG-13 and if I had a child under....say....11....I probably wouldn't let them watch it. But I love the show as an adult. I like the show in part because they do regular holiday episodes (Thanksgiving. They are the ONLY cartoon show I know that does a Thanksgiving episode every year).

Anyway, here's a song from a slightly-older episode. The backstory is that Linda's mini-tree gets stolen, they track it down to an underground rave. Bob tries to take the tree back, but then a drag queen comes out and sings a song about lights (but really about acceptance) and Linda....well, I guess you could say she sees the light. (Though also....there may have been some, ah, chemical enhancement there, at least according to the outro joke in the episode.)


Here's the song by itself:




But yeah.  It takes all kinds of lights. And that's something I've learned over the years. And while the church I belong to is still "mostly white lights" (as the song goes), I will note that a same-sex couple lit the advent candles one week, and there are of people of various heritages, immigrants, people of different life-circumstances....and it works fine. And that's what it's about. You might not understand someone else's circumstances or their life, but I tend to feel, as long as they are not hurting anyone, it's not your place to comment on it.

And I think the song kind of captures that....that maybe we are richer as people when we look around and go "those people are different, but that's cool, I'm different in my own way too"


Here's the context, with "Miss Triple-X-Mas" coming on stage to sing, at the rave: