I’ve been posting lately about my recent travels, short
trips around Wisconsin and Minnesota. I’m not done with my fall journeys, but
since it is Election Day, I felt obligated to write about that instead.
Something patriotic and uplifting, a reminder of the ideals our country was founded
on. However no divine inspiration has wandered into my head. I thought about scourging
the internet for just the right story, maybe something about an even more disdainful
election, but perhaps part of the problem with our modern times is all the
information at our fingertips on the web.
I’ve traveled a fair bit around these fifty States (ok, I’ve
not been to Hawaii, but I was in Alaska in 1982), and I pulled up a few of the
pictures I took on those travels, the photos that I’ve scanned into the
computer and that turned out all right after years of fading.
I know that the people – family, friends and strangers – are
the most important thing we have. But looking at these pictures, I can also say
that we have so much more to fight for. There’s no reason why the United States
cannot stay a great and mighty country, the home of the free and the brave.
Gooseberry Falls, Minnesota, 2007
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