It’s the Fourth of July, and I’m going to spend it contemplating a better future for our country.  Despite the news of late, I refuse to waste my energy on despair.  Despair is boring.  Despair brings nothing of value.  Hope, however, is a generative, powerful force. Hope and determination. Hope plays a long game, hope is a marathon, hope demands of us a beautiful endurance that will outlast all else.

I truly believe that.  I truly believe in us.