Carnegie Hall

 The Mason City High School received a standing ovation  for being a solo choir at Carnegie Hall in New York City.  Our son Joel directed, his wife Rachel play piano and grandson Jackson had a solo.  Carnegie Hall was sold out.  The concert brings together outstanding choirs from across the country. 

International Women's Day

 Today, March 8, is International Women's Day. So much progress and still so much gender discrimination. I think of the women and girts in Iran and in Nigeria.  I think of the sex tourism in Asia.  I give thanks for so much progress here and around the world in women's opportunities in professions.  We need to know the herstories and continue to work for women's rights. 

Bloody Sunday

March 7, 1965, John Lewis led hundreds of people across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama to oppose voting restriction of African Americans in the South. As we know he was beaten within an inch of his life. The day became known as Bloody Sunday. Today, this Sunday, as every year, people will once again march across that bridge in commemoration. Fifty-eight years since that galvanizing event during the Civil Rights movement, we need to continue and increase our march towards freedom, advocating for all to be able to vote.  This Sunday may we pledge ourselves to that goal.