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As was noted after we reported on one parade's cancellation due to low turn-out, it looks like everyone headed over to the MLK Jr. rally at Garfield High School instead of going downtown--Central District News has photos to prove it. Via Rainier Valley Post's new Classifieds section, we found a link to Fresh-Picked-Seattle's list of food-related ways to volunteer on the Day of Service. The B-Town Blog re-posts a thoughtful Obama-themed MLK Jr. essay written just before the election. Most blogs were focused on tomorrow's presidential inauguration, and some--including the Big Blog and Tim Burgess' City View, were reporting from the very crowded ground in D.C.

Seattlest headed downtown this morning, latte in hand, to celebrate the legacy of one of our country's greatest Civil Rights leaders. The P-I (God rest its soul) had informed us that the annual MLK Day parade would embark from Westlake Park on 4th and Pine at 10 a.m. and make its way to Seattle Center, so we were more than a little shocked to arrive at quarter til and see a whopping dozen-or-so people gathered. We asked a woman if this was where the parade was gathering, and she said yes. "Is this everyone?" we asked. "No," she said, laughing slightly, "we're just a small group."

What you can't do today: go to the bank, buy hard liquor, or use the post office. What you can do today: march in a parade downtown, volunteer a few of your hours for the betterment of all humanity, and take a minute to remember what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement were all about. This morning, we re-read Dr. King's Letter From A Birmingham Jail and were inspired again by his words. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly," he wrote. We're going to let those words fuel our actions today. Are you and yours doing anything in particular to recognize the holiday?