Bonafide Hero In My Eyes - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Anyone who elevates not just a race but humanity and takes it to a whole other level is, in my eyes, a bonafide hero and that's what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to me. I did not live in his time - I didn't live in Jesus's or Gandhi's either - but I'll take history's word on this one. It is beyond amazing though to have someone you know speak of these times and of him as the nightmare that was.

As we say in Spanish, "en que cabeza cabe?" Closest translation: how do you figure? It seems impossible, right? But there goes my argument for personal experience. Life isn't what's so, it's what people say to themselves it is. Perhaps to this white person who grew up in this time, it was a nightmare of sorts indeed but to me, it's mindboggling to feel this way, to say the least, especially this many years later.

You rest on, Dr. King. Your dream is my dream and it will live ... forever.

* Picture above is of painting I have by my great friend and awesome former beach neighbor, Glenn Yeck. See his art and writings at http://www.yeckart.com