Yesterday JP asked me why he wasn’t going to school, and I began to tell him that we, and everyone we knew, were celebrating the birthday of a very important person named Martin Luther King. JP loves birthdays, so he was curious when and if there was going to be a party, and would he …
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Yep, it’s real. That was the first thing almost everyone wanted to know about the now-infamous “Baby Yoga with Lena Fokina” video. The swinging, flipping and lariat-like twirling of a tiny infant seemed so surreal—and the baby so unmoved by its plight—that many viewers decided it had to be a hoax. I had a hard …
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Pictures provided by Lena Fokina seem to show Platona Goryun alive and even thriving two years after she was the unwitting star of the baby yoga video when she was two weeks old. Also in the gallery: Lena’s daughters and various participants at Lena’s workshops in Dahab, Sinai.
We’re going dark for the rest of this national holiday, but we’d like to offer a (somewhat self-serving) reminder that behind Martin Luther King, Jr., stood a strong father–strong enough in fact that everyone knew him, long after his son was assassinated, as Daddy King. Journalist Jim Buie has a nice remembrance of a speech …
