Happy Independence Day

Today I am celebrating the freedom we all enjoy?purchased, defended and preserved through the sacrifice of patriots through the generations?by working.

That's right. I'm working today and happy to be at it. Grateful to have meaningful work that I love, in a country that still offers the freedom to pursue my happy dreams--including the freedom to fail in the trying. (I understand what apparently many of my fellow Americans and the vast majority of Europeans do not. Namely, that you can't be both "free" and "taken care of.")

May God preserve our nation and raise up new generations of Americans who value freedom above security.