RTBTCKI (The Martin Luther King Jr Day 2011 edition)

[puppetmaker]

There is a chance that if Dr. King has not been assassinated, he would be alive today. It would depend on his health but 82 is not that old these days. I wonder what he would have thought of the country today or of the world today?

I grew up in Atlanta where Dr. King’s name is engrained in the town’s history. I have driven past the Ebenezer Baptist Church many a time. We have streets name after him. Dr. King’s legacy is talked about in schools.

I asked Caroline what she knew of Dr. King. She said that Dr. King wanted all people to be equal and free. That we aren’t that different from one and other. When I asked her what she meant by that. She said that she was the only kid in her class with brown hair. All the other kids have black hair or red hear or blond hair. I know her classmates and I thought through it and she is right. She said that even though she had brown hair, she wasn’t different than her friend Jennifer who has hair as long as Caroline’s but it is black.

The weather is kind of iffy. It might snow or it may just rain. Either way I need to finished clearing off the storm drains to let the run off to…well….run off.

I was 50/50 in my picks for the NFL this week. I had the Falcons, Bears, Ravens and Jets. I got the Bears and Jets right. Packers and the Steelers played really good games so now it is Jets vs. Steelers and Packers vs. Bears. I’ll say Jets vs. Packers in the Super Bowl. Although I won’t be surprised if it is Bears vs. Steelers and I won’t be as interested.

So some stuff to be done today and more stuff tomorrow. Seems a regular week. Ariel is back at college. And things are pretty much back to normal. I am working out Farpoint and the like for the year now. I have two other projects that I have agreed to do and I really need to start writing again.

I hope that y’all have a good Martin Luther King Jr. Day. He was a great man and a great orator. I think he would be pretty pleased with how far we have come in such a short time but I think he would still think we have a ways to go.

I am grateful that Dr. King’s words were a part of my growing up in Atlanta.

Comments

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

I've been to the Martin Luther King museum in Atlanta which, I'm sure you know, is built around the shell of the hotel where he was killed. They preserved the room exactly as it was that day, and I've been in it. It's a completely moving experience to visit the museum, and was made even more so for me since my companion was the sister of the pointing young girl in bobbysocks in the infamous balcony photo.