Dreamways

The review starts out: "He had a dream, so they had a 'Dream Concert'; a three-hour-plus variety show Tuesday night at Radio City Music Hall. The beneficiary was the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation in Washington, which is working to raise $100 million to 'build the dream.' There was a brief 'virtual tour' of the planned memorial, but there was surprisingly little talk about the actual design and construction.  read more »

In his essay “Of Tax Cuts and Those $10 Million Bat Mitzvahs” (The New York Times, 25 Feb 07, section 3, pg. 1) columnist Ben Stein begins his essay with an homage to the grounded-in-reality idealism of Martin Luther King.

“I read Marshall Frady’s awesome biography of Martin Luther King Jr. Wow, what that man went through. What Southern blacks have gone through. It is fortunate beyond belief that providence sent a man as great as Dr. King to redeem the soul of the nation.”

Martin Luther King Day. A holiday. It is snowing, such a blessing, even if fleeting, this warm and dry winter! My dance with my Left Arm and Shoulder continues. How many weeks has it been going on?  read more »