>>>>>Just drove to the bank....not realizing today is MLK day.
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>>>>Just heard the whole "I Have a Dream" speech on NPR. Wow! I'd heard pieces of over the years, but never the whole speech. Worth listening. I imagine it'll turn on the "Talk of the Nation" page tomorrow.
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>>>So many have tried to copy his cadence of preachers. (His father was a preacher in Atlanta, as you know). He found his voice as a young man and lived the rest of his life in the public eye, as Taylor Branch put it in his soaring biography. I have been to the mountaintop. I fear nothing now. He said those words the night before he died. In a perfect world he would be in Washington tomorrow.
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>>The History Channel has been airing the MLK documentary all day (hosted by Tom Brokaw). It's really long but really amazing. Even after studying his life in school, I learned quite a bit.
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>I will see if I can find it on replay.
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>My AA sponsor is from Wisconsin and tells me the kids where he grew up -- up north, where you are from if I am not mistaken -- get school off for the first day of hunting season but not for Martin Luther King's birthday.

Believe it or not, it looks like Wisconsin outside right now! 3 inches of very wet snow (great for packing) and more scheduled to fall til around 2pm today here. Everything is shut down of course since we only have a couple of sand trucks in the county. Beautiful but treacherous! It's never going to get above freezing until tomorrow afternoon so tomorrow's am drive will be bad as well.

When I was in school in Wisconsin there was no school on the fist day of hunting season as well. Of course, the school sessions were geared around the farmer's schedules too. Here, no such luck, but all schools and banks are closed on MLK day.