Happy (belated) 250th!!! 🇺🇸
Low Tide Notes | 0020
Happy Monday, a day after a long weekend. A day to start the week anew.
Also my 20th edition of Low Tides Notes! I started this weekly-ish “newsletter” to commit to a creative outlet when I was feeling technical at work. It has been cathartic and fun, sometimes pointless, sometimes profound. But always, me.
Thanks for reading.
I woke up feeling extremely patriotic on Saturday
This is how our 4th of July morning went:
Junie woke up in her stars pajamas. I played Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” on the speaker and literally shed a tear. We stood on our front porch said the pledge of allegiance to the flag we finally hung up. I looked at my little family and thanked my bright, burning, glorious lucky stars.
I’m trying to figure out how to say this.
Two things can be true at once. I’m not blind to the state of our politics and the climate of our country. I’m not blind the terror and war in the world.
I’ve also never felt more lucky to be born in the USA, to be raising a child that can run around under palm trees and drink her morning milk while her parents drink their coffee on the screened-in porch.
The 250th feels big, it is big.
We’re here playing a small part.
If you haven’t yet, check out some of my past essays:
Well said Hannah!