Happy Fourth of July! Those of us in the U.S. have a three-day weekend coming up -- how shall we celebrate our nation's birthday? Ideas below, but first a couple of thoughts on independence. Why not celebrate the interdependence of all nations on the Fourth? Given that the U.S. is now 238 years old, I think we are ...
The Fourth In The Forest
If less is often more, then haiku is one of my favorite ways to practice that happy discipline. I wrote these yesterday afternoon while camping on the Fourth of July. Fourth of July at Moss Creek Campground Fireworks, begone. The piney air penetrates My limbic brain-stem. Intoxicated On The Fourth Tipsy on pine air I decline the wine, and write Of independence. Independence ...
Celebrating the Fourth, Diamond-Cut Style
Happy Fourth of July! It's our nation's birthday. I've posted Ideas for celebrating below, based on this basic life-principle we all tend to forget: A nation starts its life in the beginning as land, as earth -- before people arrived to populate it. And that land, the soil, water and things that grow on it, are ...
