Happy (belated) Independence Day!
July 05, 2009
To all of the American bloggers, I'd like to wish you all an excellent Fourth of July weekend. I didn't blog yesterday because I was too busy celebrating by shooting off fireworks for five hours with my best friends in the rain. (And it rained all five hours, by the way.) I also paid homage to the 224th anniversary of the deaths of two of our nation's most influential founders, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
It's strange to think about how different our country is from the day it was founded so long ago, and yet one thing still rings true: the insatiable American appetite for freedom, something I pray we may never lose. I hope that in the coming years we, as a country, can renew our dedication to citizenship. I hope we can relearn to love those rights we have worked so hard to maintain. I hope we can relearn to appreciate the rich depths of history stored in the pages of our nation's past. Overall, I hope we can all appreciate what we have, and that we can continue to learn and fight for the things we so desperately believe in.
Happy (fifth) of July!
Love, Sarah
