I’m not quite sure if this is a couch, sofa, settee, ottoman (wasn't that an empire?) or a divan; but we bought it because it lends itself to curling up inside while reading or watching television. Which reminds me......Apparently, the term “couch potato” can be traced precisely to July 15, 1976 and to a person – Tom Lacino, who registered the term as a trademark a few years later. He was a part of a humor group that was satirizing the diet and exercise fads in California. Why a potato? Apparently, the logic goes like this: Television…Boob tube…tuber…potato! More than you wanted to know?
Let’s redeem the day by reflecting on our possessions with a couple of timely quotes by Martin Luther King Jr., who’s life we are remembering today:
“Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.“
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
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