Jan. 14, 2024Ninety-five. That’s how old the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., would be tomorrow if he were still with us. I don’t know that I can say much about the man and his legacy that hasn’t been said, so I won’t try. But I will say that his dream is the life vest that …
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Care Package for Monday, Jan. 18, 2021
Poetry: Dream Variations by Langston HughesTo fling my arms wideIn some place of the sun,To whirl and to danceTill the white day is done.Read More Song In My Head: Up To the Mountain (MLK Song) by Patty Griffin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROHW6Hy_OVc Art: Boris Challapin’s Martin Luther King Jr. Photo credit: npg.si.edu Quote: “Every man must decide whether …
An Open Letter to President Trump
Dear President Trump, As I write this, you have a little less than two days left in office. I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I feel a great sense of relief, knowing that your time in the White House is drawing to a close. Sadly, the damage you and yours have inflicted on …
Figuring It Out
“In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what …
MLK Day 2019
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. In honor of the holiday and his birthday (Jan. 15, 1929), I’d like to share five things he said that have been incredibly impactful to me and helped carry me through tough times. I acknowledge that the words King said over half a century ago were aimed at …
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