When I was a ninth grader in 1964, I was suspended from school for selling peace buttons for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
I was a tad anxious about how my mom would react, but when I came home that morning, she was beaming.
“We haven’t learned how to be just and honest and kind and true and loving. And that is the basis of our problem….if we are to go forward today, we’ve got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we’ve left behind.” ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 28 February 1954, Detroit, Mich.
Where did you spend Hurricane Sandy, the super storm that ravaged the East Coast in October 2012?
I was fortunate enough to have a book that I didn’t want to put down, so this made the two-and-a-half days of snow and wind that caused a tree to crush my car seem less important.