It's America's birthday. We celebrate birthdays.
In small towns and big cities and everywhere in between there will be parades and picnics and flag waving and fireworks bursting in the night sky. There will be joy!
No matter what your politics, we all have reasons to celebrate. My opposition to our current administration won't let negativity spoil my celebrating.
We have been watching a lot of World Cup action. Wednesday we geared up to cheer on the USA team.
The USA won and moves on to the round of 16. That match was in Los Angeles. On that same day Seattle hosted a match between Senegal and Belgium. The city was crazy with soccer fans from many nations. Next Monday the USA team will meet Belgium in Seattle. That may even be more crazy.
Today we watched an amazing match between world champs Argentina and the little African island nation of Cape Verde. Cape Verde took the match into overtime and held on almost to the end, finally losing 3-2. While Argentina won, the world was celebrating the heroics of Cape Verde. The world comes together through the international sport of soccer/futbol.
As a nation, so can we. No matter what divides us, and there are good reasons, we can come together over what unites us.
This afternoon I made my celebration food, brownies and macaron, salad for our family gathering tomorrow evening. Jill makes the pie now. I bought some cookies for the Parade Party hosted by friends tomorrow morning.
After dinner I picked some flowers to refresh by kitchen bouquet, trading pink for red for red, white and blue.
USA!
