MLK Day Lunchtime Links

Happy MLK Day to one and all. (Click link for stunning photos of King). -These words of King's, included in an epic anti-Vietnam War speech he gave in 1967 at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City, reads like an exhortation to Obama: We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity. The "tide in the affairs of men" does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out deperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: "Too late." There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. "The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on…" We still have a choice today; nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. -The BBC reports on the "scale of destruction in Gaza" while this map of bombings and casualties in Gaza is damning.