the 4th of July

I can’t let too much time slip away after the 4th to come here to write my gratitude for this imperfect country where I live…a country filled with people who are willing to work to progress and build bridges and right wrongs. We have much work to do, but we…

I am sitting here basking on the memories of all the hoopla surrounding celebrating the 4th of July. That is a good holiday in my book. We sat in church last Sunday…in California…our first Sunday back since Africa…all crowded in the same pew with my sister-and-brother-in-law’s visitors from Denmark (who…