Agenda today:
1. Journal queries
2. Celebrate
3. Study
4. Index to MLK Day projects
1. Journal queries:
What have I done lately to teach or support freedom, equality, and dignity for all people?
How can I better define myself as part of the human (rather than white) race?
Today I attended the annual NAACP Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. It was wonderful to see a packed house.
One of my favorite moments was watching two little girls dance to the gospel choir.
I also got to hear one of my past students- who is on the NAACP Youth Committee- speak on the stage!
3. Study:
Each year I read more of the writing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This year I chose some quotes from his book of sermons, "The Strength to Love" (1963)
“At times we may feel that we do not need God, but on the day when the storms of disappointment rage, the winds of disaster blow, and the tidal waves of grief beat against our lives, if we do not have a deep and patient faith our emotional lives will be ripped to shreds.”
“These forces that threaten to negate life must be challenged by courage, which is the power of life to affirm itself in spite of life’s ambiguities. This requires the creative will that enables us to hew out a stone of hope from a mountain of despair.”
"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. It is impossible even to begin the act of loving one’s enemies without the prior acceptance of the necessity, over and over again, of forgiving those who inflict evil and injury upon us."
4. Index to MLK Day Projects:
I often teach a class for this no-school day, but not this year. Here are some projects from past years, with links:
Peace paintings
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