We didn't have class yesterday because of the MLK holiday. I was going to use class time for class work, but was distracted by the hilarity of Al Roker screaming for a handshake from the Vice President during the inauguration parade...and getting it!

I'm taking a course this semester entitled "Writing for Multimedia". The event I attended last evening commemorating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a true multimedia experience, featuring live solo singers, vocal ensembles, instrumental music, and dramatic readings against a backdrop of stirring visual imagery.
 

Then I went home and watched the evening news on my DVR, wherein Brian Williams used the term "meme" when talking about social media in the aftermath of the days events. (A term unfamiliar to me before said class last week.)

In the car on the ride home, NIPR was featuring music about, and songs enjoyed by, Dr. King, including one by Pete Seeger, whom we will be studying in my other class this semester: Folklore and the Arts. 

What might have been an ordinary, bitterly cold January day instead featured events woven together like the threads of a tapestry, much like the overall experience of my Liberal Arts education.