MLK Day: Celebrate!

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

Monday is a day to consider what really is important to you -- and then do something about it! It can be simple. It can be small. Or it can be big. Whatever that means to you. It can be as small as taking a few moments to consider what really IS important to you. And don't let your feelings about MLK get in the way. Sometimes people like to just bitch about how he wasn't the perfect person that they apparently think he should have been. But I prefer to remember that no one is perfect and to honor him for the things he did do to make the world a better place. I have to personally remember that tomorrow is a happy day -- a birthday -- a time to celebrate the good things ... and not dwell on the inherent -- as well as the blatant -- racism that still exists in the world today.

Here's another one of my favorites:

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. -- Martin Luther King Jr., Speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963