Apparently sometimes less is more in zentangling – only three patterns in this one, but that seemed better than adding more.
On more weighty topics, there have been lots of good articles (and a nice Google doodle today) on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech. It’s funny: I remember the 50th anniversary of D-Day, and I was a working adult then too. MLK’s life didn’t overlap mine at all; he was killed years before I was born. Yet somehow he feels like current events in a way that WWII doesn’t to me. Maybe it’s because, though I can see how WWII remade our world, it’s still changing in response to the Civil Rights Movement – and that one is still an ongoing fight on many fronts. I can name any number of this year’s news events, from obvious ones like same-sex marriage or Trayvon Martin’s killing to inconsequential ones like Miley Cyrus’s VMA act (the cultural appropriation facet of it) that we see today in the light of a lamp that was turned on in Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta, some fifty years ago.