I can’t step into the debacle that Trump created to celebrate this country.  It seems Mother Nature agrees with me since so many of his plans aren’t working or are cancelled.  

Today I watched pieces of the Obama Presidential Center Grand Opening Ceremony. I watched and listened to Jennifer Hudson sing The Star-Spangled Banner, and To Dream the Impossible Dream. I watched and listened to Christina Aguilera sing What a Wonderful World, and Bruce Springsteen Land of Hope and Dreams.  Four former presidents gathered there with their wives, Barack Obama and Michelle, of course, and Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Joe Biden. Unification. Celebration. Offering. Gifts.

Tomorrow I’ll celebrate the Fourth of July with one son, his wife and friends.  We’ll walk to watch fireworks from all over the Bay area from a hill near their home, and it will be a gathering to honor, refresh, and inspire not tear down, steal, and destroy.  It’s a weekend to feast on what’s been built, and what can be.