Saturday, July 3, 2010

Happy 4th!

This weekend marks America's 234th birthday. I scanned the haphazard array of books in my study for an appropriate read. I settled on Jimmy Carter's We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land, a selection plucked from my small collection of signed books.





The book reminds me of our country's tradition of good deeds. As a nine year old refugee, I was a direct beneficiary of our benevolence. We Americans have a national tradition of doing good in the world. On this, our 234th birthday, I know that we have not lost our grace.

Happy Birthday, America! May G_d bless you.

8 comments:

  1. I hope you had the best of weekends, and thank you for stopping by my own blog - I appreciate it! :)

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  2. Excellent message! Thanks for visiting my blog.

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  3. I hope you had a great 4th! :)
    Very cool to have a book signed by Jimmy Carter! :)

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  4. Thank you, Rama! America appreciates your well-wishes, kind sentiments sent all the way from beautiful India :)

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  5. You're welcome, Weronika. I enjoyed the writing tool that you shared with your readers in your latest blog post, the calculation of tension per page in draft WIPs. Very cool (and useful)!

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  6. Abby,
    I enjoyed your 4th of July blog post; it was thoughtful, honest and heartfelt.
    Glad to see that you enjoyed mine :)
    Mohamed

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  7. Thanks, Amanda! We mananged to enjoy ourselves despite the heat.

    Yes, President Carter's definately one of the good guys. G_d bless him!

    Mohamed

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