It’s very sunny and extremely cold, it was 2F (-16.6) but it’s warmed up all the way to 5F, (-15 C). Toasty.
Before we get started honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, I want to thank Kim Mmmm for the coffee! Very welcome, very needed, and I greatly appreciate it. The timing was excellent.
Today is a good day to think about all the things we can do, small and large and anything in between, to make this country a more just and equal place. I’ve seen a few quotes from Rev. Dr. King (I’m giving full titles today) that have really resonated on this particular January 20th, here in 2025.
Over on Spoutible, this one, posted by @JoeJustUs:
Which feels like a good mantra to keep in the back of our minds. If true equality, true justice were easy, if everyone really wanted fairness, if people found unearned privilege as repugnant as it is, we would not be where we are.
We will be disappointed. By people. By our institutions, which, by the way, are made up of people. By the choices people make and the morals they will discard when the pressure is on.
But.
We should not lose sight of the hope for better. For people to do better, to be better, to vote for better. It may seem like a pinpoint in the distance this morning, but for millennia, people have spotted it, dimly shining, at a greater distance. Hope is our guide rope and the one thing that truly belongs to us.
We know that because they tried to murder hope when they murdered Rev. Dr. King, and yet his light shines on.
The second was a video clip on how racism, left to fester, will destroy a civilization from the inside, which, on this particular January 20th, here in 2025, feels prophetic. For this one, posted by @GodzChild4Eva you may have to click the link if the embedded video doesn’t work. Here’s the link and I’ll see you back here.
https://static.spoutible.com/spout/embed.jsFor a life cut so woefully short, Rev. Dr. King had a vision that was long, long in both directions in time. Whether the roadblocks are greed or hatred or both, I don’t know if we’ll ever fully understand.
But today, on this particular January 20th, here in 2025, it’s an excellent time to remember that change comes in fits and starts. Change comes when we focus on us, what we can do, what we will do, and not them.
Our paper may be smaller but we can still write the script. With whatever we have on hand, for however long we can, until once again, we see it, that infinite hope.
Have a great Monday anyway by remembering and giving honor to a great, great man.
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