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“Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.” – Eleanor Hibbert<\/p>\n
Ms. Hibbert, whoever she is, has it right; just the way life is.\u00a0 And, by the way, I’ve had my share of experience.<\/p>\n
Slept in my own bed last night.\u00a0 Ahh.<\/p>\n
Today is the tour of the Target Corporation’s art collection with lunch at Masa before the tour.\u00a0 This one has been a bit problematic, partly because it came in when four other events also got organized.\u00a0\u00a0 However, the day has come at last.<\/p>\n
Today will be the first day at home, a regular work day, when Kate does not go into the Allina Medical Clinic Coon Rapids.\u00a0 She stayed up last night until 2:oo a.m. playing a word game on her Kindle.\u00a0 Freedom.\u00a0 A beautiful thing.\u00a0\u00a0 This is also the week of her party, Coming of Age:\u00a0 The Art of Retirement.\u00a0 On Thursday, January 20th, from 5-9 p.m. we will celebrate Kate and her medical career, but, with more inflection, Kate and the next years of her life.\u00a0 If you read this, you’re invited to join us at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.\u00a0 No gifts, just you and yours.<\/p>\n
It’s also Martin Luther King day today.\u00a0 My age cohort grew up during Dr. King’s rise to national prominence as the civil rights era took hold of the nation’s psyche.\u00a0 The civil rights movement represents the US at its best and its worst.\u00a0 Over the long haul since King’s leadership in 1955 the Montgomery Bus Boycott ignited by Rosa Parks to today cultural attitudes and practices have changed dramatically when it comes to people of color.\u00a0\u00a0 One way to note this is to consider the relative reputations of Dr. King and two of his chief opponents:\u00a0 Lester Maddox and George Wallace.<\/p>\n
Have we come all the way to a nation in which a person is judged “not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character?”\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Are matters demonstrably better?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Can we stop working on the pernicious effects of prejudice and racism?\u00a0 Of course not.\u00a0 Can we celebrate a better day?\u00a0 Yes, that’s what MLK day stands for.<\/p>\n
All I’m saying is simply this, that all life is interrelated, that somehow we’re caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n\u2014\u00a0Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
This perspective of King’s has its roots in the radical theology of Henry Nelson Weiman.\u00a0 It was Weiman’s basic idea that god could only be found in relationship and, further, that god really was the mystical thread of connection between and among us all.\u00a0 A fine idea, though a bit of a category mistake in my opinion.\u00a0 Why call this mystical thread god?\u00a0 Why not the mystical thread or deep relationship or interrelatedness?\u00a0 In either form though it represents a distinct challenge both to American individualism and to the existentialist stance that I consider my own.<\/p>\n
King and his intellectual mentor, Weiman, call to those of us who put our bold lettering under Individual to consider that there is an equally bold and distinct word, Related.\u00a0 Martin Buber would approve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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