July 04, 2005
Happy Independence Day
It seemed appropriate to celebrate the 4th of July watching America's Pastime in the Nation's Capital.
As it happened, I also celebrated by watching a French bike race and eating Italian food.
I took a little online survey thingy the other day that said I was 51% American. Actually, I'm 100% American, I'm just a liberal who like good cheese. And one of the things that I appreciate most about our country and our culture is the wonderful combination of diversity and inclusion.
A couple of years ago I was stuck in traffic on my way home from the local fireworks. From my car I could see the parking lot of a shopping center where families had tailgated to watch the show. In between two minivans were two families, one Indian, one Hispanic (the mom in the Indian family was wearing a sari, and the bumper stickers on one of the vans were in Spanish.) The adults were on lawnchairs drinking soda, the kids were playing hacky sack. I wished I had my camera so I could have captioned the picture 4th of July, U.S.A.
Posted by Nic at July 4, 2005 07:25 PM | TrackBack