What an exhilarating time! And what a serendipitous confluence to have Martin Luther King Jr. day celebrated the day before Barak Obama's inauguration. There has never been such excitement about an inaugatration day - at least in my lifetime. But then the only other inaugaration day that I remember at all was JFK's - the image of Robert Frost, his hair blowing in the wind, trying to hold down his papers, is engraved on my mind. such hope we felt that day too. But this is far beyond that. Not least because we have endured dark times these last few years. We still have far to go,, but we feel that there are possibilities that did not heretofore exist. The promise of Barak Obama is that we will work together to do what we must. That is worth celebrating. So, for today, a quote from Dr. King.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King Jr., "Remaining Awake Through A Great Revolution", 3.31.68
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