Uncle Roger's Notebooks of Daily Life

Thursday, December 01, 2005

It was fifty years ago today that a young, tired, woman decided that standing up (or, more accurately, sitting down) for what's right was worth what might happen.

Thank you Mrs. Parks for having the courage to defy -- and ultimately change -- a terrible law and a vile part of our culture. Thank you also for giving others, myself included, the courage to do the same. There are, unfortunately, many more battles to be fought, many more small, closed minds to be opened, many inequities to be righted and though you are no longer with us in body, your spirit lives on. Thank you.

Journal Description

My life is, to me, ripe with frequent challenges, occasional successes, spontaneous laughter, adequate tears, and enough *life* to last me a lifetime. To you, however, it surely seems most pedestrian. And therefore, I recycle the name I used previously and call this my Notebooks of Daily Life. Daily, because it's everyday in nature, ordinary. These conglomeration of events that are my life are of interest to me because I live it, perhaps mildly so to those who are touched by it, and could only be of perverse, morbid curiosity to anyone else. Yet, I offer them here nonetheless. Make of them what you will, and perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.

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