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Jan.17.2012
This day following Martin Luther King's Birthday was lost.
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Jan.16.2012
What is in a name? The name on Martin Luther King Jr's birth certificate was Michael Luther King, which MLK Sr claimed was a mistake. It certainly doesn't have the ring of Martin Luther King. But it is the contrast and combination of Martin Luther, the revolutionary, and King, the essence of...
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Jan.16.2012
The Eve of Martin Luther King Day!
The nights began to turn cold, and friends near and far were in discomfort and danger. May the Healand Spirits look over them.
The political news of the day was that Jon Huntsman, the most reasonable, competent, of the Republican Candidates,...
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Jan.15.2012
Today’s my birthday. I share it this year with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a calendrical accident that confers the spiritual equivalent of a contact high.
But for me, a birthday is always an occasion. Every year has a distinct character and completeness that begs to be understood: I want to...
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Nov.18.2011
Love is the primal force in the universe. Love is encapsulated in relationships. These may be parent and child, brother and sister, friends, human and animal, male couples, female couples and male and female. Love is sometimes tragic, disjointed and fragmented. American actors, Joanne Woodward and...
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Aug.30.2011
Like most Americans, I am thrilled about Chicago’s new Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial. I have been reading eagerly about its design, its landscaping, its emotional and cultural impact. As I look at the official website, though, I find myself disappointed that the Chicago Freedom Movement...
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Aug.10.2011
The stories our leaders tell us matter, probably almost as much as the stories our parents tell us as children, because they orient us to what is, what could be, and what should be; to the worldviews they hold and to the values they hold sacred. Our brains evolved to “expect” stories with a...
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Jan.18.2011
I’m not a sentimental person. Sentimental, according to my beloved Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, means “marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism” whereas elemental means (second definition) “of, relating to, or resembling a great force of...
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Jan.18.2011
Yesterday was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! While my small stone for that day didn't reflect that, it could be said that his small stones, his pebbles (of truth) tossed upon the pond are still rippling outward today.
the piles of limestone and taconite along the river, looking like snow-...
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Jan.18.2011
It's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Jan. 17. It's 1989 and I've just walked onto the set of my first television gig, 'China Beach.' We're on Stage 9 at the Warner Brothers Studios lot, halfway through season two of the critically adored Vietnam series. I'm wearing a heavy black wool turtleneck...
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