We can still love who we used to be, the respect and gratitude we took for granted; and the ideals we aspired to uphold and manifest. Always imperfect at best, a study in contradictions, never fully living up to our true potential as laid out in the Constitution and its Amendments.
In my 20s I remember being amazed and amused that my fath…
We can still love who we used to be, the respect and gratitude we took for granted; and the ideals we aspired to uphold and manifest. Always imperfect at best, a study in contradictions, never fully living up to our true potential as laid out in the Constitution and its Amendments.
In my 20s I remember being amazed and amused that my father, retired from 20 years in the Air Force, wanted to put a flagpole in our rural front yard. I was young and much more politically left than I am now at 67 yrs old. I was thinking only about the waste and disgrace of Vietnam, Nixon, the politics of the Bush1 years, racism and misogyny, etc. etc. etc.
For decades liberals have been labeled as hating America. That was never true. We simply want our nation to continue to aspire to and evolve toward the vision our Founders had for this country. The current events are a setback that I believe we will eventually overcome, as we always have in the past.
This week I found myself shopping online for flags to hang from my porch rafter: an American flag, flanked by a Rainbow/Transgender flag and a Coexist flag. I think my father would be proud of me, and have no pride at all in my 2 Trumper sisters. His last vote was for Obama in 2008. He couldn't stand Bush 2.
We can still love who we used to be, the respect and gratitude we took for granted; and the ideals we aspired to uphold and manifest. Always imperfect at best, a study in contradictions, never fully living up to our true potential as laid out in the Constitution and its Amendments.
In my 20s I remember being amazed and amused that my father, retired from 20 years in the Air Force, wanted to put a flagpole in our rural front yard. I was young and much more politically left than I am now at 67 yrs old. I was thinking only about the waste and disgrace of Vietnam, Nixon, the politics of the Bush1 years, racism and misogyny, etc. etc. etc.
For decades liberals have been labeled as hating America. That was never true. We simply want our nation to continue to aspire to and evolve toward the vision our Founders had for this country. The current events are a setback that I believe we will eventually overcome, as we always have in the past.
This week I found myself shopping online for flags to hang from my porch rafter: an American flag, flanked by a Rainbow/Transgender flag and a Coexist flag. I think my father would be proud of me, and have no pride at all in my 2 Trumper sisters. His last vote was for Obama in 2008. He couldn't stand Bush 2.