I Have A Dream
This weekend I have been thinking, watching, and reading about the man whom this holiday weekend is celebrated for. There wasn't much new I didn't know already or hadn't heard at some point in my life. Yet it was good to remember just how far we have come from his I Have A Dream speech which he gave to more than 200,000 people from the steps of the Washington Monument in 1963. It was also sobering to think of how far we have yet to go. So many great spiritual and moral leaders, and just good-hearted people have tried over the thousands of years of our civilization to get us to put away our petty differences. So many have died at the hands of the violence they fought so mightily against. Yet today, all over the world, the powerful thrive while the weak suffer. Today as I write this a family in North Korea divides their last four grains of rice amongst themselves and boil a tin cup of water over a candle to cook those four grains. As I write, a Russian girl is lured to a go