Sunday, August 30, 2020

I just love the picture

This evocative image was taken early in the morning before last Friday's March on Washington, fifty seven years after the first March on August 28, 1963, when Martin Luther King Jr. told us about his dream. Folks are still out here fighting the good fight, six feet apart and masked now, but still dreaming about getting to that mountaintop, being judged by the content of our character, all of that. Photo by Omar Guinier

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  1. It's such a beautiful photo commemorating a powerful time of change in our history.

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    1. robin, the photographer is a friend of our family. I saw him grow up and become the artist he now is.

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  2. I love this picture, too. Thank you!

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    1. am, a moment of quiet, embodying hope, because why would people continue to march if not for hope.

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  3. This photo makes me so sad, but that is my state of mind - "I see dead people"...

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    1. Linda Sue, I can see what you mean, the spaced chairs, the whole scene sort of ghostly, but I also see resilience and a refusal to quit in this picture. Onward. Love.

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  4. I never thought it would take this long, and indeed it hasn't happened yet.

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    1. Allison, truthfully, i wonder if it will ever happen fully. But at the very least, we can make things better, right?

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  5. How much longer will it take? It has already been way too long.

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    1. Ellen, how much longer, yes. What we do today and in November will influence the answer.

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  6. Oh My Gosh how Stunningly Breathtaking and Spectacular!!!
    It has been way to long, But the Dream is still alive and the day that it becomes TRUE in every way imaginable it will be one Glorious Day.
    Thank you for sharing this beautiful photo. It truly takes my breath away and the dream grows with every person who puts one foot ahead for the love of one and all... xoxoxoxo

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    1. Beth, the dream is alive. One foot in front of the other. Thank you.

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  7. Beautiful and hopeful. We just gotta get this guy out of the White House and start moving the country back in the right direction.

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    1. Thank you, Steve. Yes, vote, vote, vote. I hope you are registered in Florida, lol.

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  8. So beautiful -- an illustration that the dream remains more beautiful than reality, still something to hope and strive for.

    Read something very interesting: MLK's comments that included "I have a dream" apparently were delivered extemporaneously. It took Mahalia Jackson, who had discussed it with him earlier, to remind him. When she realized that he was coming to the conclusion of the speech without including the part that had impressed her most, she shouted a reminder from the platform. ... Such a razor-thin margin between a good speech and one for the ages.

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    1. RH, ooooh that's a wonderful story. I had no idea. Thanks for sharing it here. I hope you and yours are doing well in these striving times.

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