An Indepence Day Message From Surfergrrl
Pulled from Surfergrrls comments in my blogaversary post (bold emphasis mine)...
July 4th is independence day. Traditionally we move into party mode. Beer, brats, potato chips, potato salad - Yea! Red white and blue isn't as sickening a combo as red and green - Yea! (albeit it makes for a pukey lavenderish color only those under 2 and perhaps a token fairy would appreciate). I dont have to work and can jetski my drunk ass around a lake 3 hours north of here - Yea! I'll get the meanest farmer's tan and loudest fireworks just to prove I celebrated the 4th - Yea! Ish. That's celebrating someone's birthday (FYI, mine is July 6th), not Independence Day.
Do you even know what Independence Day represents? To me this is our primary Thanksgiving. Take a moment to think of all the freedoms you have and where you would be without them. That is what Independence day is. If everyone gained an ounce more appreciation for where we are and what we have, material and abstract, only then can we begin to realize what we have to offer others who are not as fortunate.
Creating socialist programs and jacking up taxes is not the way to help. As a nurse, one of the biggest things we teach patients is how to care for themselves. The success of occupational therapy would not be anywhere if we did not want patients to help themselves. Devices as simplistic as the wheelchair allow people to keep their mobility (read independence). Even electronics and appliances have adaptive devices to allow even the most disabled to continue with activities of daily living, that is, live independently.
Well said. Our primary Thanksgiving. I like that. It really is a day to give thanks; Thanks to those who believed in freedom, those who had the imagination to create our unique constitution and system of government, thanks to those who fought and died and who are fighting and dying for that freedom, thanks to those who supported them, and thanks to those who still believe that freedom is worth fighting for.
Until you open your eyes and pay attention to the world, you can't really appreciate what a novel concept America is and how rare and fragile our freedoms really are.
July 4th is independence day. Traditionally we move into party mode. Beer, brats, potato chips, potato salad - Yea! Red white and blue isn't as sickening a combo as red and green - Yea! (albeit it makes for a pukey lavenderish color only those under 2 and perhaps a token fairy would appreciate). I dont have to work and can jetski my drunk ass around a lake 3 hours north of here - Yea! I'll get the meanest farmer's tan and loudest fireworks just to prove I celebrated the 4th - Yea! Ish. That's celebrating someone's birthday (FYI, mine is July 6th), not Independence Day.
Do you even know what Independence Day represents? To me this is our primary Thanksgiving. Take a moment to think of all the freedoms you have and where you would be without them. That is what Independence day is. If everyone gained an ounce more appreciation for where we are and what we have, material and abstract, only then can we begin to realize what we have to offer others who are not as fortunate.
Creating socialist programs and jacking up taxes is not the way to help. As a nurse, one of the biggest things we teach patients is how to care for themselves. The success of occupational therapy would not be anywhere if we did not want patients to help themselves. Devices as simplistic as the wheelchair allow people to keep their mobility (read independence). Even electronics and appliances have adaptive devices to allow even the most disabled to continue with activities of daily living, that is, live independently.
Well said. Our primary Thanksgiving. I like that. It really is a day to give thanks; Thanks to those who believed in freedom, those who had the imagination to create our unique constitution and system of government, thanks to those who fought and died and who are fighting and dying for that freedom, thanks to those who supported them, and thanks to those who still believe that freedom is worth fighting for.
Until you open your eyes and pay attention to the world, you can't really appreciate what a novel concept America is and how rare and fragile our freedoms really are.
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