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Sep. 27th, 2008 12:09 pmHappy birthday to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shaggy2lance - one of the few of you that I know IRL, so I can personally attest that she deserves to have a very good birthday.
When I went to the barn this morning, I saw a flower - 5 wide petals of the most delicate, pale lavender shade. In the field, there were flowers of the brightest, most sunnily cheerful yellow in daisylike shapes, and others, tiny white ones in clusters that, if you weren't close to them, looked like poofs of fairy snow. These are all "weeds". Maybe we should redefine our concept of a weed?
I watched the first part of John Adams today. I admit I watched it just to see my nephew, but even a fond auntie's eyes couldn't spot him in the costumes and wigs. However, the show is excellent so far, and I'm glad I got the motivation to watch it. The Revolutionary War is, in my opinion, one of the most significant events in history - and I don't say that just because I'm an American. It's a fascinating time, and because we sit on this side of the event, I think we often forget that the issues and the result were not obvious to the men who brought our nation into being as they are with our hindsight. That they rebelled isn't the astonishing thing, to me. What's astonishing is that they rebelled with a sound basis of principles. We Americans were not a mob who just happened to have more guts, weapons, intelligence, and determination than the British, but a people united and led by men who held up the principles of the Declaration as their banner. With all our faults, I don't think any nation in history has had a better start.
shaggy2lance - one of the few of you that I know IRL, so I can personally attest that she deserves to have a very good birthday.When I went to the barn this morning, I saw a flower - 5 wide petals of the most delicate, pale lavender shade. In the field, there were flowers of the brightest, most sunnily cheerful yellow in daisylike shapes, and others, tiny white ones in clusters that, if you weren't close to them, looked like poofs of fairy snow. These are all "weeds". Maybe we should redefine our concept of a weed?
I watched the first part of John Adams today. I admit I watched it just to see my nephew, but even a fond auntie's eyes couldn't spot him in the costumes and wigs. However, the show is excellent so far, and I'm glad I got the motivation to watch it. The Revolutionary War is, in my opinion, one of the most significant events in history - and I don't say that just because I'm an American. It's a fascinating time, and because we sit on this side of the event, I think we often forget that the issues and the result were not obvious to the men who brought our nation into being as they are with our hindsight. That they rebelled isn't the astonishing thing, to me. What's astonishing is that they rebelled with a sound basis of principles. We Americans were not a mob who just happened to have more guts, weapons, intelligence, and determination than the British, but a people united and led by men who held up the principles of the Declaration as their banner. With all our faults, I don't think any nation in history has had a better start.