Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory

This was a weird Fourth of July. Normally I hate the holiday because I hate the intolerant patrotism that people use to repress ideas contrary to the government and use it against people of color and/or people of other religions. However, this year I had fun.

My aunt, uncle and two cousins came over yesterday to watch the boat parade on our lake. My cousin Katie and I made signs and we were going to be the "judges" of the parade. Of course, we weren't really judges but made random "joke" signs to hold up as the boats went buy, for example pi, 3/7, 129, 5.1, triangle, ok, so-so, -2 and more. It was really funny and we got pelted with water baloons buy people who didn't take it kindly. Needless to say we were the hit of the parade. Scarily we were "flashed" many times. Many women would lift their shirts to expose their bikini tops and one man even took off his pants to show us his boxer shorts. It was interesting.

That night we watched the fireworks over the lake. It was nice because we could see them but the loudness didn't hurt my ears. Normally I hate parades and fireworks, because they are boring and there are more interesting things in this post-modern era than exploding chemicals.

I have been reading and sleeping the rest of the time this weekend and I loved it. It was so relaxing, it's exactly what I have needed. I've also done a bit of writing. I am about 32 single spaced MSWord pages into a book or something that I am writing. It's a collection of thoughts and essays that I have worked on for a long time. It's not very good but right now I'm just getting thoughts on paper (er, in the computer) and maybe I can edit them later so they're better. I doubt they would get published but that would be awesome. They are however very personal stories and I don't know if the people they are about would like them released. At any rate, it is very cathartic to get the thoughts out of my head. I need to do this more.

I hope you find independance in your life, but I hope that we are never alone.