A Different Detroit

If you follow the media and pop-culture produced anywhere outside of the Detroit area, you probably have a rather bleak view of a city that conjures up images of war torn streets, abandoned buildings and fields taking up the space of where healthy neighborhoods should be, and blight in general.  You know, something that pretty much every city in the world has at least a few bad places of!  '

You probably would not imagine a scene of skyscrapers rising above a very tree dense urban landscape, something almost akin to a morning scene in one of the more quiet corners of Central Park.

This sort of scene is not a carefully orchestrated illusion, but just a casual shot taken from the forth floor of Sacred Heart Major Seminary, looking out to downtown while lies four miles distant, as the crow flies.  What you see is a lovely sunrise obscured in fog and mist, not pollution.  Los Angeles and New York cannot say the same for their mornings a good deal of the time, and yet more people can relate good times and great stories about such places.  Perspective is everything, and the important part to remember about taking a fresh look at our continent's "different" places is that the negatives always seem to outweigh the positives.  Next time, instead of looking at a news report on the "worst cities", try asking someone from Detroit what they love about the area.  The same goes for any place out there you might have thought was undesirable.