Thinking about borders today - the boundaries we've pushed past and the many more we still have to overcome. Thinking about the lives of the kids begging for change on one side of this river, and the lives my students can have on the other. Thinking about how this river is so calm, so beautiful. Doesn't seem like it was ever meant to separate anything. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day January 18, 2016 by Charlotte Parker in Personal Narrative, Commentary, The Valley