I’m always amazed and grateful for this blog’s wide, international audience. While most of my readers are from the United States and the UK, I also have a fair number of readers from continental Europe, Australia, India, as well as other continents and countries in smaller numbers.
Today is Independence Day in the United States. I don’t view my country in the same way I did as I was growing up. It would take a very long time—a novel, even—to explain why. You might find bits and pieces of the reasons scattered throughout these books reviews, if you’re reading between the lines.
There is much to criticize, and much to be grateful for. Having a public blog and YouTube as a young woman is a great liberty that many of our ancestors would have loved to have. The ability to make friends from around the world, based on technologies that originated first in warfare and then in the pursuit of information sharing. Origin stories are not always so black-and-white… just as God brought Joseph freedom out of his personal tragedy, good can be formed in spite of dubious beginnings.
So with somber reflection, I do observe the 4th of July, not as a idyllic dream but as a mixed reality, realizing a moment to recognize some of that good in the midst of the bad. To those celebrating, I hope you, too, can find such a balance. ❤
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