Declare your own independence

"Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think! Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves."

1858, Henry David Thoreau

Have you declared your own independence?

Do you use the freedoms we as Americans have?

If not, are you truly free?

Are we?

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?