How fabulous in all of human history that we were born the descendants of the founding people of this country?
I wake up in the night and look at the Pacific, out my bedroom window, 3000 miles west of where my ancestors landed in wooden boats three hundred years ago...and I simply am stunned.
In all of human history, to be so...blessed. So lucky. The day we were born we won life’s lottery.
We coulda been slaves in Egypt, pulling a giant stone.
Or just mud hut dwellers, doomed to a life of disease and early death.
Instead, because of them, we are here.
I’m always absolutely and serenly stunned by that reality.
Yes.
“A republic, if you can keep it!”
Benjamin Franklin
Trouble is no one knows the difference anymore...