Listeners of “Slater and Marjo In The Morning” were thrilled to hear Marjo was back in the studio after a week-long skiing adventure in sunny, snowy Colorado. On Monday, we talked a lot about the importance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Yes, it’s a federal holiday, no schools, no banks, no mail.

But what was really cool was that last night my youngest son Ori learned something he learned in preschool with an amazing homemade chicken dinner.

The MLK theme was brought up at our dinner as the kids were excited for another break from school. Attend Ready Set Learn at

Just before dinner, Olli told me about an exercise he did to understand human equality. He said that at school there were two eggs side by side, one brown and one white, and the teacher explained that the insides of both eggs were exactly the same.

I thought it was pretty cool to use different colored eggs as a metaphor to describe the reality of the crucible of humanity. I actually felt tears dripping down my face when I heard his son explain what he had learned.

Instilling these values ​​at an early age is absolutely paramount in preventing hate from developing.

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