Sitting on the steps of MIT

Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 8:43 PM
Sitting on the steps of MIT, eating ice cream cake. Dusk gives the sky a deep blue color, with highlights of gold from the setting sun. I had a long day today, and just being able to pause and enjoy some ice cream feels really good. I watch the people pass through the busy intersection, in between the cars that whiz through. For now at least, it feels like life has been put on pause.

Happy Fourth of July

Monday, July 4, 2011 at 11:31 AM
Happy Fourth of July!

Today represents more than just the birth of a nation. A remembrance of the courage of the Founders is in order. 235 years ago, a repressed, powerless people had the courage to decide that life was more than just being alive. Life meant having free will and liberty. The power to decide your own fate. These people decided that life meant controlling your own destiny rather than being controlled. Instead of cowering before a greater power, like wolves running from fire, the American people rose up to fight and extinguish the external threat.

There's something admirable about this. Our forefathers shucked any dependence on worldly security, and decided that their freedom was more important than having physical possessions and security from peril.

I tried to put my feelings into words, but as is often the case lately, what I write down pales in comparison to what I feel inside.

- Howitzer

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