My boyfriend sent this video to me yesterday, and I didn't watch it immediately. He called me over to his computer last night to view it, and I was hushed and in awe.
I suggest watching that, and then reading the latest installment of Maira Kalman's 'Pursuit of Happiness' illustrated column in the Times (pictured above). Hand in hand, they paint a picture of the things that are blessed about our country, why we need to work hard and have representatives that care about the right things, to keep the good fight going to preserve the integrity of our nation.
The trifecta in my patriotic package today is a more somber, disturbing reminder about why we should take a moment to think about how lucky we are to live here. HBO aired a documentary last week about child migrants traveling to get to America, at any cost, titled Which Way Home.
Heartbreaking and eye-opening, it sheds light on what we appear to be to the outside world- or some of it, at least. If we all worked a little harder to uphold that perception, we'd be headed in the right direction. Aside from the sadness I felt when I heard the teenage kids in the film speak of hoping to be adopted when and if they made it here (adopted?! teenagers? Mexican or Guatamalen teenagers? They have no idea how impossible that dream is), I felt more embarrassed that they were risking their lives to get to a country that is barely holding it together.
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