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MLK Day 2005
Jan. 17th, 2005 09:22 amIt’s snowing today. It is the finely powdered snow that blows all over the place and doesn’t really stick to anything. It is no good for snowballs or snowmen but it looks pretty. This is the first good snowfall I have seen this year. There was apparently another in December but we were in Florida so for us it didn’t count. I like snow. I don’t even mind having to clear off the steps and walkway for others. Someone put the “Eskimos have 40 words for snow” theory to the test. Currently they have 28 known words for snow. They listed them and the kind of snow being described. The people doing the survey do point out that because of the lose of native language usage among many of the various tribes; some of the words for snow may have been lost. I call what I have now ‘Snow that blows all over the place’.
You know how parents like to predict what their children are going to be based on what they do very early in their lives? My current prediction is that Caroline is going to be some sort of engineer. She loves taking things apart and examining them closely. She then brings them to me to fix and watches me put whatever she has taken apart back together. She also loves to build with her blocks. She is working out what can go on what and not fall over until she knocks it down. She is also trying to figure out how to get the round peg in the square hole. She knows it can go in the round hole but believes she can get it into the square one. Her memory is already amazing for things she has done or seen previously.
It’s Martin Luther King Jr. day. I don’t think the kids would have gotten a snow day even if they had school today. The roads are clear so buses can get around to get the children to and from school. I grew up in Atlanta where Martin Luther King was based. In school we learned about Dr. King about the same time we learned about Gandhi. They emphasized nonviolence and the Civil rights movement a lot. I think that in the South more is taught in the classroom about both the Civil Rights movement and the Civil War (War between the States) than in other parts of the country. Both effected the South more than the North or the West. Dr. King was a good person who was trying to get a better life for the people he was pastor of. Yes, we all know that he had his faults but then everyone does. Overall Dr. King became a symbol of the possible in the face of the impossible for many people. So today we celebrate the life of a man who tried to make the world a better place for all and to some degree succeeded.
I am grateful to Dr. King and all people who tried and are trying to make this a better place for all of us to live.
You know how parents like to predict what their children are going to be based on what they do very early in their lives? My current prediction is that Caroline is going to be some sort of engineer. She loves taking things apart and examining them closely. She then brings them to me to fix and watches me put whatever she has taken apart back together. She also loves to build with her blocks. She is working out what can go on what and not fall over until she knocks it down. She is also trying to figure out how to get the round peg in the square hole. She knows it can go in the round hole but believes she can get it into the square one. Her memory is already amazing for things she has done or seen previously.
It’s Martin Luther King Jr. day. I don’t think the kids would have gotten a snow day even if they had school today. The roads are clear so buses can get around to get the children to and from school. I grew up in Atlanta where Martin Luther King was based. In school we learned about Dr. King about the same time we learned about Gandhi. They emphasized nonviolence and the Civil rights movement a lot. I think that in the South more is taught in the classroom about both the Civil Rights movement and the Civil War (War between the States) than in other parts of the country. Both effected the South more than the North or the West. Dr. King was a good person who was trying to get a better life for the people he was pastor of. Yes, we all know that he had his faults but then everyone does. Overall Dr. King became a symbol of the possible in the face of the impossible for many people. So today we celebrate the life of a man who tried to make the world a better place for all and to some degree succeeded.
I am grateful to Dr. King and all people who tried and are trying to make this a better place for all of us to live.
