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I wrote something today for the paper that I’m quite proud of.

It was about Martin Luther King Jr’s impact on our community and I spoke to a variety of people that just took my breathe away.

I usually don’t shill my stuff here, but damnit it all, if I wasn’t proud of it.

You see, I had the honor of talking to people who worked in civil rights 40 years ago, and to just hear their words was inspiring. So many memories from men and women who described to me their lives when King was alive and how they were apart of some major swings of the way people though during the civil rights movement was amazing. I was given the honor of listening to their stories, and the thing is, as sad and terrible that it was, they came out with such a large spectrum of hope.  I was sometimes so much in awe that I it was hard to breathe. They know, as do I, that racism still lurks in our society, but to hear an 80 year old man say that he knows he made a difference refusing to succumb to hatred when hope is the answer was just simply amazing.

I also don’t post my stuff on here that I do there but I just have to tell you, I was astounded by the courage I heard today.

It was an incredible couple of days.

So now, I’m getting ready to head to Memphis.

And I feel pretty good.

And I’m honored to have been allowed this window. I can’t tell you how much these men and women mean to me.

To allow me a moment of history.