Blossoms Around Town
A bit bedraggled from the freeze and still effulgence with spring beauty.

A bit bedraggled from the freeze and still effulgence with spring beauty.

To what and to whom shall we offer our reverence and create our social altars? How do those choices define us and others?


Around the base of this statue, it says this as one walks clockwise from the front right. And when done circumnavigating, and facing the same direction in the direction the statue of Mary McLeod Bethune, one can see down East Capitol Street to the Capitol Dome:
“I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you a thirst for education. I leave you a respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity. I also leave you a desire to live harmoniously with your fellow man. I leave you finally a responsibility to our young people.”