Today is July 4th, Independence Day, the day we stop to enjoy a summer picnic or barbecue and celebrate our great nation with a parade and fireworks, yay us! Only not so much anymore. It no longer feels like we're the home of the free and the brave. The United States of America is now a place of hate, greed and ugliness.
I've never been a big flag-waver, but at least I felt some pride in what my country stood for ("in our America"), what the generations that came before fought for. Now I fear for what the generations coming after are going inherit. This America is no longer one I recognize.
What does this photo have to do with the day? Nothing really. Other than I've always loved her expression. She knows bullshit when she hears it. She suffers no fools. She knows what really matters. BTW, this is not one of the many plant-based black and white photos Andrew has given me over the years. Nope, I picked up this one up myself, back in my 20's. She looked like the kind of older lady I hoped to become one day.
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