Thoughts for the day

It's been snowing for three days straight. Fortunately, most of that time was the weekend! We took it easy, cooked a little, drew a lot, did our respective things and watched the snow fall.







Time to pull on our boots and go back to life as usual! We have places to be and things to do. I need more coffee, and I have an hour between errands, so I'll bring my sketchbook too.

Martin Luther King, Jr. turned his activism toward opposing the American War in Vietnam, and on top of the trouble that the US government and White American establishment figures were already giving him, that stance only made them give him more. He didn't waver. It wasn't necessary for him to stand against the war. He already had a huge amount of civil rights work on his shoulders. He spoke out for the poor in general, regardless of race, and paid for it. Speaking out against the war was a big step further than that. And I'm grateful. the man didn't hedge. He wasn't a moderate. Once he was in the fight, he went all in. And you all know I have a spot in my heart for Vietnam. It stole me. I want to go back. The worst thing we could've done was go over there and try to claim it for ourselves, and it somehow recovered from that, even if we haven't.