Taking a Break

I’ll probably go through serious writer’s withdrawal, but I’m taking a break for a week.

Enjoy the Fourth (and Third and Fifth etc.) of July. Consider spending part of the time with this query:

Are we as a nation, and as individual Americans, helping others and ourselves achieve the “unalienable rights” of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”?

And, if so, how? If not, why not?

And with your own life and liberty, what particular "happiness" are you pursuing?