Martin Luther King Day 2014

I knew it was Martin Luther King Day. That didn't stop me from going to the Post Office to mail a package. It did stop me from going inside and actually mailing the package though. Which is fine. Because for at least one day a year, we officially must pause to think about the conditions of racial (in)equality in our country.

Sadly, to me, those conditions are seemingly worse these days. Whether it is having a black President that lets a segment of our society loudly, rudely and sometimes violently blind themselves to a whole race of humanity, or maybe, in a more than ever self-involved glued to individual screen culture people are more into being separated than being united. It feels like a recipe to me, a hollandaise sauce maybe, that was melding, stroke by careful stroke of the stirring spoon but is now broken, pulling itself apart in response to forces unseen. It isn't beautiful and will serve no one.

We must keep trying and never ever give up. The only course I know is to continue the one on one revolution. Stand up and speak out for what is right, in your actions and in your speech, in what you project as right and what you won't tolerate as wrong. Sit down with one another - encourage those who would believe there is no commonality to realize the differences between us are literally only skin deep. No matter what the circumstances, all humans are wanting the same thing - to be treated with respect, to be loved and to be allowed the freedom to love and live with dignity. Any child could point this out in a second...


One of many reasons I love living on Culebra is the beautiful variety in skin tones. From whitest white to deepest black and every tone and shade of brown - coffee, chocolate, caramel, cocoa, copper, fawn, mahogany, burnt sienna, brick, toast, ginger, rust, chestnut, hazel, dun, auburn, tawny, umber, bronze, tan, dusky, sunburnt - descriptive words that only begin to cover such a beautiful rainbow of skin tones. It makes 'white' seem pretty boring. 

Keep your little light shining, keep on loving and 'let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King.'

Have an MLK Jr. Monday. Do something melding.