Here is one of my favorite Autumn poems...

TO AUTUMN

By John Keats 1 ( Read more... )

Just so y'all know, this journal went "friends only" a ways back. It is because I am a teacher, and don't wish to post publicly in most cases ( Read more... )

I read today that historians fear that we're losing who Dr. King really was. As his life went on after winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the Civil Rights Movement, he expanded his focus to concerns about poverty and he was violently opposed to the Vietnam War ( Read more... )

Five for Fighting (a band I know very little about) just joined the good guys in my mind ( Read more... )

Some years, I teach about MLK, and there is this lovely two-week (roughly) period where the kids really are a little extra-kind to each other ( Read more... )

Here is an excellent article on the reality of living on food stamps.

http://citypaper.net/articles/2006-08-10/cb.shtml

Happy Father's Day to all the Fathers on my friends list, and to all who nuture, guide and care for others.

The House voted today to cut funding for public broadcasting. If you care, call your Senators and sign Move On's petition...

http://civic.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting//

A very happy Mother's Day to all my friends who are Moms, and all my friends who nuture others in their own ways!

A quick wish for a blessed Passover for my Jewish friends and a blessed Triduum and Easter to my Christian friends. I am off to one of my favorite liturgies of the year -- Holy Thursday.

I also am frantically putting the finishing touches on the Night Prayer service for after. Ah, planning. :-)

Happy Spring to all those who aren't Christian or