Blast from the Past: February 24, 2006

This evening I busted out the journal I kept during my sophomore year of college, a somewhat embarrassing trip down memory lane that did yield a few nuggets of hilarious comments.  (I always think to myself, "I should really burn old things I've written," but I can never quite bring myself to destroy them.  I'll regret this when I die unexpectedly and everyone reads this crap.)

But I found this entry somewhat amusing/interesting and not too personal to plaster on the Interwebz, so here it is:

Two.  Twenty-four.  Oh-six.

I'm sitting in the Louisville airport by myself, drinking coffee as I wait for my flight home, which I will take by myself.  This makes me a grown-up.

As I'm drinking my coffee, I notice printed on the cup a quote.  My eyes skip to the author, and it takes a minute for the name "Morris Dees" to register--he was the guest speaker at a recent university function.  The cup goes something like this:

"THE WAY I SEE IT #54:  'We are all brothers and sisters.  Each face in the rainbow of colors that populates our world is precious and special.  Each adds to the rich treasure of humanity.'  --Morris Dees, civil rights leader and a founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center"

Then below, in fine print:  "This is the author's opinion, not necessarily that of Starbucks."