melting pot

One of my favorite quotes in reference to America is by Jimmy Carter, "We have become not a melting pot, but a beautiful mosaic-".  I like both ideas of a melting pot and a mosaic, where you can see the individual colors, but they are all jumbled and swirled around each other.  My wish this MLK day, is to continue to celebrate the differences and individuality of people, while embracing each other with respect and the desire to learn, accept, and understand.

If you're curious about the photo, its the interior of the large crucible in which secret formulas are melted at 1500+ degrees F to create the wonderful, beautiful colors of glass smalti at the Orsoni foundry in Venice... this actually is a discarded, 'garbage' pot... sigh.....