Updateage

I'm slacking on my updating duties again. All is well. The first week of classes flew by. It's amazing how jammed my "free" Tuesdays are going to be. Ah well. Knowing that I can't use it as slack time will help keep me focused when I would rather be anything else. Saturday I went home to celebrate the big 2-1 with my family, joined by Johnathan and David. It was great to spend time with aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents, and I'm glad that they were finally able to meet two of my favorite people. I couldn't have asked for a better birthday. I received two coffee makers, but they serve different purposes, so I kept them both. No more paying three and a half dollars for a cup of coffee!

I read some of Dr. Martin Luther King's writings today to observe the day. The only speech I'm very familiar with is "I Have a Dream," but many of his other works are just as gripping and incredibly faith driven. I found them very interesting. Yet a passage from the formerly mentioned speech is still one of my favorites:

"And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.'"