Sitting here in Taunton, MA, 8:30 in the morning alone with my thoughts. I read William Rivers Pitt's posts in Truthout.org and thought, yeah, Bill, you got it right yet again. Who/what is a good American? What does it mean? Being patriotic today is like shooting fish in a barrel, he says, but what about the other 364 days of the year? He cited Ben Franklin as the ideal model, and I thought that was great. Franklin was a thinker, which is what we could use a lot more of these days. It's not just do you support the President? Yes or no. Do you believe in God? Yes or no. If you watch what passes for news these days, you likely get a ready answer. We live in such dumbed-down times, it's hard to forget what an intellect Franklin was and how he used that intellect to help win the Revolutionary War. There's some irony in that. Hey, he got France to help us out with their Navy, anyone remember that?
I'm getting to know more of Jeff's family these past couple days. There's a whole lot of Massachussetts going on. So went to Mah-ket Basket for some groceries and put up the pawp-op to sleep in and just had a great time in front of the kettle fire outside roasting marshmellows and making home-made pop-tars (two pieces of white bread, fruit filling in the middle and you put in between this metal contraption and you put it over the fire...cool).
I hear breakfast bein' made. Happy 4th, everyone!
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