Good Morning GFY!
 

Welcome to Monday, and for the Americans on board, Happy 4th!

May your day be filled with happiness and prosperity, and may you and yours be safe.

Hope everyone has a great day. :)

Goodevening over here!!

Good morning Tala and everybody else! It's around 12:34PM in the East; I just woke up! :)

I hope everyone has a happy and safe 4th! Enjoy!!

gooooood morning!!!!!:D:D

Hello Tala! :winkwink:

good morning tala :)
how's the celebration?

Good morning to all my GFYers

good morning tala!

on the agenda today, lunch with grandpa caleb, hug nation at 1 pm pdt, possible hottubbing in the afternoon with friends, then dog beach with bro and sis-in-law to watch the fireworks down the coast and at the fair (across the way).

here's what i had to say about today in my blog:

happy independence day!

while most of you are out knocking back "a few" until the fireworks start, inevitably a few of you will start to puff up your chests acting like being an american also entitles you to being an ass. i can hear the testosterone now. (sorry to pin this one on the guys, but i think if i start hearing a woman puffing up her chest about how great america is for freeing *other* nations, i just stop listening to her - i will work on my sexist behaviour). being an american isn't all about going into other countries and "kicking some arab ass," as more than half of this country apparently believes,

which is kinda sorta, yano... sad.

but since i, myself, have lost site of what being an american *is* all about, i've chosen this year to focus on the "independence" part of indepenence day. so happy day, to every person who can think for themselves - to every person who believes it's "okay" to think for one's self, and to every person still waiting to learn that it's okay to think independently AND freely.

this country was built on what? what was important to us when it was created? ...life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness... keeps popping into my mind. my pursuits for happiness involve independence, but they don't involve war, and guess what - i'm still an american! (and that's okay.)

:2 cents: