Happy 4th of July! Just in case I don’t see you before all the festivities. Let me say a few things about this very traditional and time-honored holiday. It is a time to reflect upon a country asserting its independence. The United States of America. There were no guarantees that a call for freedom would be met. The Founding Fathers, and a scrappy former collection of colonies, with powerful words for guidance, would take a great leap of faith. This 250th birthday will come and go all too quick. Not too worry. There’s never a wrong time for Americans to study their past, learn from it and move forward. There will be pushback of all kinds, some petty and some deadly, but we just keep moving forward. We move forward and we plan, we protest, we organize, we call out, we cheer, we jest, we do what we need to do to form a more perfect union.
Don’t forget to jest! Humor helps!