It Will Be A Very Quiet Evening, Here -- As We Send Off Meditations, And Heart-Felt Thanks, For The Life Linda Brown Lived...

I am headed upstairs now, padding quietly -- in soft socks, to sit on the floor, and ping the ringing bowl three times -- and then. . . just sit quietly, mindfully -- until my consciousness, and all that I am. . . . reaches out, beyond this small blue speck, this galaxy, this universe. . . . until it crosses the void, and. . .

Until it reaches out, to a now ever so lightly-traveling Linda Brown. We all owe her. Every American alive today -- every one of us -- we owe her our undying gratitude -- for what she endured, into 1954, and well-beyond -- in order to establish the principles in Brown v. Board, for all of us: white, black, red, yellow and brown alike. Per CNN, then:

. . . .Linda Brown was 9 years old in 1951 when her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her at Sumner Elementary School, then an all-white school in Topeka, Kansas, near her home.

When the school blocked her enrollment her father sued the Topeka Board of Education. Four similar cases were combined with Brown's complaint and presented to the Supreme Court as Oliver L. Brown et al v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, et al.

The court ruled in May 1954 that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal," a violation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, which states that no citizen can be denied equal protection under the law.

Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP's special counsel and lead counsel for the plaintiffs, argued the case before the Supreme Court. . . .

She has flown -- and flown past every copper colored, twisty long-legged shepherd moon-lette I've ever known, now. . . So, I will fall silent. And say thanks. Thanks. . . .

नमस्ते