A YEARLY TRADITION ON THIS WEBSITE..
The fourth of July upon us.. the fireworks, the nostalgia.. the pride. I have always had mixed emotions no this holiday– more so than any other one as a matter of fact. It’s the birthday of American independence, it’s the festival of a nation united in common causes.. It sure took a long time for some of us to become more in common than others.. We have been through pain and tribulation as a country.
And we will again.
The ending of the WONDER YEARS from 1993 (yes, that long ago) was the same mixture of nostalgia and pain that Americans so often feel as they glare at the bombs bursting in air above their towns every year.. Kevin Arnold didn’t marry Winnie. And his dad had a heart attack. And things didn’t really go the way people thought they would .. or could.
Possibilities often dashed but somehow it all works it.
America has the same feeling sometimes.. The same coupling of pain and laughter, sorry and joy. All at once as well…
And that is just life.
American life.
Fourth of July 2016.
