From Dr. King’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Dec. 10, 1964:

I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history.
I refuse to accept the idea that the “is-ness” of man’s present [...]

(Just can’t resist) fiddling with the big sister’s stuff, Berkeley, CA.

[Don't even get me started. I'm as corny as Kansas in August, high as a flag on the Fourth of July. If you'll excuse an expression I use, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with a wee little guy! And so on with [...]

And everybody has their organic pear and mango baby food all up in their hair.
I know what you’re saying: People pay big money for hair treatments like this in fancy spas coast to coast.
Okay, maybe just on the coasts.
Okay, maybe just in L.A.

At right: Fig. A. The Triangle of Safety at work.
All’s I’m sayin’ is, it’s not like the moment she started peeing directly into the toilet — rather than into the bazillionth, or the bazillion-and-oneth diaper that I fastened onto her — everything was suddenly all peaches and cream. In my haste to schedule a [...]

San Francisco Chronicle photo of filmmaker Ann Hershey by Liz Hafalia
Documentary filmmaker Annie Hershey’s long-awaited film about the life and work of writer-activist Tillie Olsen will be making its Bay Area debut tonight, on what would have been Olsen’s ninety-sixth birhtday. She died on New Year’s Day a year ago.

Radiant Boy, Berkeley, CA.