Today is MLK Day: His actual birthday is January 15

"Any number of historic moments in the civil rights struggle have been used to identify Martin Luther King, Jr. — prime mover of the Montgomery bus boycott, keynote speaker at the March on Washington, youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

But in retrospect, single events are less important than the fact that King, and his policy of nonviolent protest, was the dominant force in the civil rights movement during its decade of greatest achievement, from 1957 to 1968." (More at the The Seattle Times)

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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I know he wasn't speaking about design when he said this. But isn't creation about taking a step forward anyway even if there's a chance of failure? I thought this quote seem to fit this site. Your site is awesome in its hopeful creative spirit.

thanks for this post today.

I actually remember where I was when my father told me that Dr. King had died, because we lived in so many places and I was certain ages in certain places: we lived at 1001 Lizardi Street in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans.

We heard the announcement on the news on the same TV that I used to watch "Batman" on. I don't remember much else about the interior of that room, but in the living room we had a black velvet desert painting over the sofa.

Anyway, my family was very upset, because it right around the time when my own father was working fairly successful to facilitate racial harmony there in New Orleans.

The previous year, a couple of white kids down the block stopped playing with me and my sister because we had befriended our new next-door neighbors, which was an African-American family with about 8 children. The math of it seemed to work out fine for us, though. Lose 2 friends, gain 8. Very interesting lessons to learn when you're 5 years old.