Karen, thank you for your commentary. What you describe is the same swelled heart I felt when listening to Robert describe the dangers, defamation, deceit and the perseverance, the bravery… It struck me as OK to extol and revive the times when the hoisting of the flag symbolized a goal to aspire toward and do what’s best for our country …
Karen, thank you for your commentary. What you describe is the same swelled heart I felt when listening to Robert describe the dangers, defamation, deceit and the perseverance, the bravery… It struck me as OK to extol and revive the times when the hoisting of the flag symbolized a goal to aspire toward and do what’s best for our country at large. Let us shed whatever negativity is part of tribalism. Competition? Compromise and unity? At least this instead of the dangerous and vicious divisiveness we face in these times. I so relate to your description of the flag as co-opted by the MAGA cult. I just read there is Republican pushback about proposed removal of confederate monuments in Arlington cemetery. Of course it’s part of our history, but do we see statues of Hitler in Germany? I don’t think so… And was it in Belarus where the Russians controlled and installed statuary, but as the citizens began to take back some power and expelled the Russians, they decorated the statuary like circus characters… They took it back, made it their own, to reject, shame and eject the Russian control. I certainly don’t have exact knowledge, but I read Heather Cox Richardson, Joyce Vance, and, of course, Rob Hubbell, voraciously (a few others, too, but these are my main three !!!) and I try to pay attention and learn. His piece published close to midnight moved me deeply, and my teacher heart had to respond. I’m fully aware I do not seem capable of substantive information on the political topics covered… But if I’m grateful for the good someone’s doing publishing their writing, informing and uplifting proactivity and hope, it behooves me to thank them, along the order of if you love someone, tell them, because we are not promised tomorrow. Gratitude! Amen! You did the same. TY
Karen, thank you for your commentary. What you describe is the same swelled heart I felt when listening to Robert describe the dangers, defamation, deceit and the perseverance, the bravery… It struck me as OK to extol and revive the times when the hoisting of the flag symbolized a goal to aspire toward and do what’s best for our country at large. Let us shed whatever negativity is part of tribalism. Competition? Compromise and unity? At least this instead of the dangerous and vicious divisiveness we face in these times. I so relate to your description of the flag as co-opted by the MAGA cult. I just read there is Republican pushback about proposed removal of confederate monuments in Arlington cemetery. Of course it’s part of our history, but do we see statues of Hitler in Germany? I don’t think so… And was it in Belarus where the Russians controlled and installed statuary, but as the citizens began to take back some power and expelled the Russians, they decorated the statuary like circus characters… They took it back, made it their own, to reject, shame and eject the Russian control. I certainly don’t have exact knowledge, but I read Heather Cox Richardson, Joyce Vance, and, of course, Rob Hubbell, voraciously (a few others, too, but these are my main three !!!) and I try to pay attention and learn. His piece published close to midnight moved me deeply, and my teacher heart had to respond. I’m fully aware I do not seem capable of substantive information on the political topics covered… But if I’m grateful for the good someone’s doing publishing their writing, informing and uplifting proactivity and hope, it behooves me to thank them, along the order of if you love someone, tell them, because we are not promised tomorrow. Gratitude! Amen! You did the same. TY