Happy 4th of July! We are getting ready to grill some chicken with homemade BBQ sauce, watch fireworks with friends and then go out for some live music. Yay, America!
Land of the free
This is one of the things which has made America great: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Happy Independence Day!
Patriotism
Patriotism isn’t a solely American virtue. People the world over experience love, pride and loyalty to the nation of their birth. None of us has any control over where we were born so I find it interesting to encounter undue pride over this accident of birth. I think we often forget that the British…
Happy Birthday, America!
Photo by Karah Thompson
America the Beautiful…
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern impassion’d stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America!…