Things have been pretty busy for me lately. I took a brief vacation last weekend and visited my baby sister and got to see my nephew, the baseball star, play. His team won both games, he scored the first run in one and drove in the game winner in the other (and according to my internet research, he appears to have won this past Thursday’s game with a solo homerun in the top of the 7th inning). It was a good time, I always enjoy spending time with Munchkin and her family. Yesterday and today seemed like they would have been great days to fly, but, alas, I didn’t get to. I hope to get in some flying again in the next week or two, but that will depend in part on the work situation. The company and the union are still negotiating although the contract expired last night at midnight. If the union goes out, I’ll have to work in a new place and, I’m told, it will be 6 12-hour days per week for the first few weeks (if the strike lasts that long). Ah, well, it isn’t flying weather now, we have thunderstorms and a tornado watch and they are predicting snow tomorrow and Tuesday. Gotta love spring, huh?! Oh, well, tomorrow is opening day of the baseball season and the NCAA championship game (in basketball), so I’ll try to OD on that and enjoy the snow. It also just occurred to me that yesterday was the 41st anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King in Memphis. As I think I wrote before, I really came to appreciate him much more in the mid-70s, but I do remember the rioting that broke out after that awful day. I’ll try to write something of substance in the next week.
Category: Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Jr Day
I was only 6 when Dr. King was assassinated, I remember the TV coverage very well. I knew of him, but I didn’t really understand what he was all about at the time. It was in the mid-70s that I finally read about him and Gandhi and really came to appreciate what he stood for. Today is the holiday celebrating his birth/life/legacy and to remember that there is still work to be done. Pastor Bob Cornwall has two excellent stories up on his blog today. The first talks about a sermon Dr. King gave a month before his death entitled Unfulfilled Dreams. The second one discusses remarks that Barak Obama made yesterday at Ebeneezer Baptist Church in Atlanta (Dr. King’s former church). I especially appreciate the second quoted passage. I am so sick of all the negativity and mud-slinging in politics today. All these politicians who claim to be Christian/religious don’t seem to remember the Golden Rule, do they? I sometimes yearn for a parliamentary system where the legislature can be dissolved and new elections called in a matter of weeks rather than the current system here in the US where Congrescritters essentially have to start running for reelection before they are even sworn in and the Presidential race lasts 2 years. If more folks running for office felt the way Sen. Obama speaks here, perhaps so many of our young people wouldn’t be disillusioned by the process. Ah, well. I hope you all had a good holiday.