Away from home

We took a short winter trip to the Skagit Valley recently. It is an agricultural region north of Seattle. In the spring there are vast fields of tulips and daffodils and other crops. In the winter many flooded fields are temporary homes to migrating birds. We went bird hunting but also enjoyed the beauty of the area. So we’ll be exploring another part of Washington state in coming days.

For those who wonder, the white behind the trees is either low clouds, controlled burns, or chimney smoke. It’s too wet for wildfires.

Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. today as he is honored on this national holiday: a brave, thoughtful, and articulate leader.

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  3. Did you meet up with Mary Beth (http://smallcityscenes.blogspot.com)? She’s from Stanwood and her photos have long shown the beauty of the area. Are those white thingys low-lying clouds or smoke from fires? I think Washington has so much to offer!

    We could use a MLK today. Those days seem a world away. At the time (1968 I think) I was pastor of a Lutheran Church in a Chicago suburb. I had a number of friends who marched. I didn’t do much but we did send food to Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket and I wrote a story that he used in his Chicago newsletter and occasionally we went to the big rallies held on Saturday mornings on the south side of Chicago at what I think was the State Theater. Exciting times. There weren’t many white folks there. But the place would be filled with chatter, and then Jesse would come out on the stage and stand at the podium. Not a sound could be heard. He began softly and slowly, “I may be black … I may be poor … “[I think there was one more “I may be”] but then he’d shout , “But I am SOMEBODY!!!” And the theater would explode with the sound of people shouting with him. I got chills down my spine and people where crying. Those were fantastic moments!

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