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Wow. How cool is this?!? :-p Thanks so much for all of the kind words. Nicole and I are super excited and have a lot to look forward to. For the record, she is all about the Brothers. We went to our first show together in Cincinnati on July 1, and had a terrific time. And she isn't just along for the fun of the ride, either. A couple of weeks before the show, I loaned her "Beginnings," "Live At Fillmore East," "Eat A Peach" and "Hittin' The Note." She immediately started making some very astute comments--that she loved the raw energy of "Beginnings," that "Live At Fillmore East" was the best live album that she had ever heard, she loved "that 33 minute song" on "Eat A Peach," and so on. When I mentioned that "that 33 minute song" was my favorite song of all time, she said that she could see why. Oh yeah!!! A really thrilling moment for me came when she pulled up to my house one afternoon absolutely blasting "You Don't Love Me" from the Fillmore album, and I could see her bouncing around and playing drums on the steering wheel. She got out of the car and said, "This one is definitely my favorite!" :inlove2::inlove2::inlove2: As Karen mentioned, Nicole accompanied me on my trip down south for the Atlanta, Charlotte and Raleigh shows, and we had a fantastic time. On our long drive back, we talked a lot about the possibility of getting married next spring, and one thing she said that just about made me run the car off the road was something to the effect of how were we going to save money for a wedding and still go to a couple of Beacon shows in March? :inlove2::inlove2::inlove2: Okay, enough about me. In all the hoopla, I forgot to make a post that I had planned on making today. As most of y'all probably know, today is the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech. A plaque to commemorate the spot where Dr. King delivered his speech in front of Lincoln Memorial was dedicated last week, and I was proud to learn that the impetus for creating the plaque came from a man right here in Louisville by the name of Tom Williams. A few years ago Mr. Williams and his wife travelled to Washington, and while they were there, they looked for the place where Dr. King had stood, but there was nothing to mark the spot. So, when he returned to Louisville, he wrote our Congresswoman, Anne Northup, to ask if something could be done. He explained that he hoped to return to Washington someday with his children--children not yet born at that point--and that he wanted to take them to the very place from which, in his words, "the soul of a nation had been touched and changed for good." Mr. Williams made a brief address to the crowd at the dedication of the plaque last week, and one of the things he said that I really liked was that he felt the great Kentucky-born president gazing down from the monument would be pleased by what they were doing that day. Sorry for the long post, but here is a little piece of Dr. King's speech that really hit home with me: "I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all the flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day." EAPFP .