"Thank you, Oh my Father..."

Life
Change

Happiness
Weeping

Friends
Enemies

History re-counted
By a mind that loves it
And shares that love

Squirrels and fat men running around trees
Loneness in a room full of people

Inverse Tangents
Restricted Domains

Sound produced
Sound amplified

Beauty of Man
Beauty of God

Friends come
Friends gone

New friends
Old friends

Good friends
Best friends

Chats at 2:00
Amuseing conversations

Short people
Who aren't actually short

Building lives
Being built up by others

Dancing in the rain
Talking about the stars 2000 miles apart

Football and Bede
Elmo's Song

Bilabial Mental Fricatives
The wonder that causes them

Love
Wisdom

Monocles and steel whips
Slinkies

Lack of Putt-Putt
Ten Thousand Eight Hundred pounds of coal

Souls full of empty
The strength to fill them

Wisdom
Stature
Favor with both God and Men

The sine quid non of my very existence
The sustainer of my soul.


For these, I am truly thankful....To God.

Mr. President.....

God Save the King

God save our gracious king,
Long live our noble king,
God save the king.
Send him victorious
Happy and glorious
Long to reign over us
God save the king.

O Lord and God arise,
Scatter his enemies
And make them fall
Confound their politics
Frustrate their knavish tricks
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God save the king.

Thy choicest gifts in store
Oh him be pleased to pour,
Long may he reign.
May he defend our laws
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice
God save the king.

Nor on this land alone,
But be God's mercies known
From shore to shore
Lord, make the nation see
That men should brothers be,
And form one family
The wide world o'er

British national Anthem

E Pluribus, Unum

"We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours."(John of Salisbury)

Here I am, sitting on the shoulders of Great Men and Women who have come before me. I stand on the shoulders of Patriots and Pilgrims, Politicians and Philosophers. I am supported by men who have died for my freedom, who have given their life for mine. All these men have worked diligently to preserve my right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Property, and I can now join their ranks. This year marks my progression into legal adulthood, and thus my ability to vote. Tomorrow is my opportunity, my duty, to cast my say to support a man who best of the candidates embodies what this country before me has stood for. I pray that the Lord God will guide and direct the nation according to His will, and will embody the next President to defend and uphold the virtues and rights of the people of these United States of America.