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Announcements:
—We have SDW Co-Writing TODAY from 3-7 p.m. CT. Learn more here.
—SDW Members: A new resource has been added to the SDW Membership Library. All Members have early access to “A Spiritual Memoir Reading List by Catherine Ricketts.” The link is in the top right corner of the SDW Members Resources List. This reading list is fantastic! Enjoy! (And please let me know if you need help with anything related to the SDW Membership!)
—Read yesterday’s One O’Clock Central entry with the quote “Loneliness can be confusing, but broadening your belongings makes everything better.” Today’s entry will include the quote below by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
—One List of Online Gatherings Happening This Month
January 2-30: Spiritual Direction for Writers® Co-Writing Sessions,
January 21: Thoughtful Readers Gathering with Cole Arthur Riley and Black Liturgies, Free & Paid
January 27: Spiritual Direction for Writers® Revision Stations Designed by Lauren F. Winner
January 27: Online Seminar for Moms Who Write with Sessions for All Caregivers & Those Who Have Experienced Lament and Loss around Motherhood, Free & Paid
January 28: Thoughtful Readers Gathering with Amy Long and Codependence, Free & Paid

“We have lived so long with this idea, of people saying it takes time, and wait on time, that I find it very difficult to adjust to this.  I mean, I get annoyed almost when I hear it, although I know it takes time.  But the people that use this argument have been people so often who really didn’t want the change to come, and the gradualism for them meant a do-nothingism, you know, and a stand-stillism.  So that it has been a revolt I think against the idea of a feeling on the part of some that you can just sit around and wait on time when actually time is neutral.  It can be used either constructively or destructively.”

Here are two of the illustrations by Elizabeth Catlett. You can see all of the images from the rare book here.

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”Every Martin Luther King Day, the American Academy of Poets offers a poem to mark the occasion and these words may offer us our best sideways entry points into King's story. Birmingham, Alabama's Margaret Walker links King to the biblical prophet Amos in her poems Amos, 1963 and Amos ( Postscript ) 1968.” - from the California African American Museum’s website

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