3 days from this day is a holiday I’ve always struggled with, if I’m completely honest. Independence Day here in the United States of America, and I’ve always wrestled with a few things: Independence, on the day this whole idea became an actual country, really didn’t mean freedom for everyone, not even close, and if we’re honest, it still doesn’t today. Far too many laws that restrict the liberty of far too many people, far too much nonsense in far too many courts and positions of power that have still not yet understood the “All are created equal” part of our first ever Declaration. “All Men should have meant ALL humans,” only it didn’t. Only it doesn’t really still.
Nevertheless, I want to offer an alternative prompt for today, and aim just at the liberation, not the political meaning, but the deeper, more metaphorical, more metaphysical, more Important? Let’s go…
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