Blossom everywhere...clocks going forward soon. Ahhhhhhh. Breathe it in!
Wrote up my notes from "Eyes on the Prize" today and realized Martin Luther King's ideals are my ideals exactly. This could be a memo from my heart:
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Also, I think he has it on the money (unfortunate metaphor) when he said that the wealthy (especially whites in America) were "more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality and humanity." When I tried to suggest these ideas to my students on Tuesday night as we discussed a photograph showing a vulture hovering over a starving child, they looked at me with something like terror, because, I think it meant we -- including me -- must not simply do something to help the disadvantaged, but must CHANGE OUR LIVES.
Jumping down off my soapbox, I ask myself, 'So what are YOU going to do, Nicola?' Whatever it is might be the most important lesson my children ever learn. It will take courage, something the Civil Rights Movement tells us we have in spades if we will only use it.
I think right now my body is exhausted by my mind's desire to run a marathon every day...maybe tomorrow I will try to rest (ha!).
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