how i spent my MLK day

i went for a walk in the morning fog and bought a fresh baguette at acme. i strolled further on to get cigarettes, circled back, and stopped at REI; checked out the members sale in the back room (seriously, even a hi-tech camping pad for $15.00 is no deal if it has an unidentified leak). tried on a few jackets (what is my attraction to green? i need to switch it up to purple maybe. i'm still reminded of of the diesel military jacket i didn't swoop on at a second hand store. *sigh*)

i continued my walk back, stopping to check out a new gym that advertised boxing boot camp. ooo! checked the price, $ 150.00 for a seven week course. oh! i got back home and made a brunch of poached egg, banana, and pieces of baguette. so nice.

i cooked roasted chicken with quinoa to share with a co-worker, cleaned house, watched several excerpts of eyes on the prize (my favorite civil rights documentary), listened to mahalia jackson's trouble the water numerous times (god, i love that song and the way she sings it), posted gobs of MLK on facebook, read the new york times, goss on the dailymail, and generally chilled out.

i never cease to be awed by king and his words, even in a christian context. one of his speeches in montgomery, alabama 1965 he quotes a verse from james russell lowell's the present crisis so eloquently and epically that you feel it in your bones:

Truth forever on the scaffold,

Wrong forever on the throne,

Yet that scaffold sways the future,

And, behind the dim unknown,

Standeth God within the shadow,

Keeping watch above his own.

How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

How Long? Not Long!

....listen for yourself and be moved.

mslisa