Today, on Martin Luther King Day, our president is inaugurated into his second term and yours truly recovers from five too many mimosas at Drag Bingo. I'm pretty sure nursing a hangover is not the best way celebrate the man who symbolizes the struggle for civil equality. So, on this Nation Day of Service, I can only offer this:
"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars ... Hate cannot drive out hate: only LOVE can do that." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
As you go about your day today and this week, think about how you can love your fellow Americans a little harder. Not just in words, but in action. Maybe it's as simple as offering your seat to someone on the train, helping a mother carry her stroller up the subway stairs, checking in on an elderly neighbor or finally signing for that volunteer training at the homeless shelter/animal shelter/afterschool tutoring program/Christian counseling center.
But above all let's start with ourselves, because ...
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