[Thespiritexpress] Fwd: MLK, the Tree, and Me

Mon Jan 19 12:18:04 PST 2026

Still lives strong in my heart ~ my son Joshua’s b-day ~ and mine yesterday.

Connections of the heart and soul ~ 🙏 💛⚡️ ~ all miraculous ~ mysterious ~ !! ~ ✨ 💫

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> From: "Dr. Tom Pinkson" <a-new-vision-of-living at v.kajabimail.net>
> Subject: MLK, the Tree, and Me
> Date: January 19, 2026 at 5:02:11 AM PST
> To: yasskin at mindspring.com
> Reply-To: tompinkson at gmail.com
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> Dearest Relatives,  
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> You are likely familiar with the famous photograph of Martin Luther King on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial giving his “I Have a Dream speech” which includes a view before him of the Tidal Basin, the huge crowd gathering there, and toward the back, a large grove of trees. What you probably don't know, is that I am sitting high up on a branch on one of those trees! Yup, its me. $100 to anyone who can find me. 
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> My family had marched with the crowd that day and when we got to the place of the speech most of what I could see is the back of people’s heads. I looked to my left, saw a climbable tree and went for it. Sitting comfortably enjoying the view the tree helped me so now I could both hear and see Martin when he spoke. I was touched by what he said then and I continued to be touched these many years later by the wisdom of his words.
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> Today, you may feel disempowered. Today, Dr. King's words remind us again of each and all of our power to keep doing our part to build a better world for all:
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> “Everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree…You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know about Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics to serve. You only need heart full of grace A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.”
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> Dr. King walked the walk through all the violent attacks and threats. He lived his integrity and to this day remains a model of a true courageous wisdom elder though he was still a young man when his life was taken away so tragically but not surprisingly. Dr. King himself said he rather live forty years standing up than 80 years on his knees.
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> On this day that we celebrate his birth, our human collective continues be stuck in fear and greed-based harmful ways of treating one another and it seems to be getting worse. Many people feel disempowered. They don’t know what to do and don’t believe what they do can make a difference. I hear this from many folks in many walks of life which leads me to share these supportive words from MLK. May they help you take heart and strengthen your resolve to show up and do and be what higher wisdom guides you to do.
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> Prayers for working towards critical mass of more people seeking to serve “we” instead of “me”. We are all in this together, life-raft Earth and a hole in the boat sinks us all. 
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> Love on because sometimes that is the best we can do and all we can do.
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> ❤️
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> Tom "Tomás" Pinkson, Ph.D.
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