It was a red, white, and blue themed weekend around our house. There were drives, movies, naps, cake, flowers, and flags. Everything you need for the 4th of July.
If all that wasn't enough, there was this on the Writers Almanac today. Copied below for you convenience. Because it's that good.
Preface to Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.
see.
now i could have read this to you on our way up to mendocino last september. the entire walt whitman reader.
dramatically.
while you drove.
next time.
Posted by: sister | 07/05/2016 at 01:17 AM
Whitman can be a little tough to take sometimes, but that quote is perfection....I printed it to paste in my journal. Not to get all mushy, but your blog reflects a life which radiates his advice: you have a knack for revealing the possible richness of everyday and simple things.
Posted by: Sharon Walworth | 07/05/2016 at 05:59 AM
makes me want to say "hallelujah" because it is like a choir singing to me!
Posted by: Heidi Sue | 07/05/2016 at 03:58 PM