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 |   Thoughts destined to be washed away by the tides of life. |
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I've been studying my cover photo for a while now, and it seems to me that it is more than just a photo of what is there that can be seen, more than just three white rocks stacked on a beach. It contains an important question about the future, about what happens long after the photographer has gone. What will happen to our pile of stones when the tide comes in? Will it topple or has the architect built this structure at a safe distance? I don't know what will happen to these words that I stack here on the sand. They may prove safely distant, or they may be swallowed up by a rush of self-doubt. They may be here for a season. They may lose their balance and be scattered by the shoreline, or be hidden away under shifting sands. Perhaps someday, the tides of life will reclaim them. Or maybe that's just a bunch of poetic, romantic nonsense. After all, this is just a blog. |
| On This Day in History On March 3, 1931, President Herbert Hoover signed the congressional act that made The Star Spangled Banner the official national anthem of the United States of America. Since then it’s been the cause of many a case of vocal strain, laryngitis, earache and broken glass. All kidding aside, I love The Star Spangled Banner. I tear up whenever it is played and sing along. Considering I have absolutely no revolutionary patriots in my ancestry - only loyalists - and my parents were Canadian and Canadian-adjacent, I am a staunchly patriotic American citizen. Worse than that, I am proud of it and resist efforts to shame me for it. Oh yes, I do love The Star Spangled Banner. It makes me wish I had more of a vocal range, but perhaps it wouldn't be so special and meaningful if I didn't have to put in an effort to sing it. It's a sacrifice that I and those within earshot of me make for our country. |
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