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“I love you, Mommy.  I love you, Daddy.”  Kelby went back to eating his sandwich.

Yesterday, our 4-year-old son had interrupted the normal rhythm of lunch with those words.  It would have been perfectly normal if we had been tucking him into bed.  But it was lunchtime.  It had particular meaning because it was out of context.

When things seem out of place is when they stand out, when they impact you.  At lunch we’re usually talking about the craft he did in the morning or the fort he built.

Receiving flowers for a relative that has passed away is in context.  When the flowers come from the company you ordered your shoes from, it’s terribly out of context.

Reminds me what Seth Godin said a while back about a hand-posted note standing out on the back of a UPS truck.

Do things out of context.