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America, One Week From Today…After The Vote #election2016 #2016vote

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America will be a different place one week from today. We will have elected our first woman as President in Hillary Clinton or we will have elected Donald Trump. The race is tightening and people are on edge. One thing we can agree with is that we are all ready for this to be done with. My country is a very divided place at the moment. Whoever is elected will have to unify us somehow, although I don’t see it happening soon. After we vote, what then, who will we be? What will our destiny hold? Many other questions shall be asked too.

It will be interesting to see what happens next Tuesday night as our votes are being counted and the electoral college map gets filled out in blue for Democrats and red for Republicans (thanks to the late Tim Russert of NBC News for that color coding idea a few years ago). In the USA it takes 27o electoral votes to win the Presidency. The popular vote doesn’t always decide the outcome so there is another point of discussion.

Yesterday I voted and I feel good about my ballot. You probably can guess how I voted though.

The next six days will be tense. We shall see how it all shakes out.

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Rambling About America; Fear Not

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If our fear is stronger than our hope then our nation will never be great…it will just be scared and afraid and very alone. The world is changing, people are evolving. America is a better place when EVERYONE has a seat at the table and they are secure in the fact that they matter. The future is a place where individuals of all creeds, color, orientation and heritage will have a responsibility in moving the country forward, not back. As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”

Are we going to be America the great and beautiful or something else? Fear not is mentioned in scripture. Maybe that is a lesson we should all heed.

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The Spirit Of America Made Available Worldwide

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May the American spirit of freedom and liberty find its way to your native lands. Celebrating our Independence Day is a reminder that not everyone has the freedoms available to them to do amazing things in the world. May freedom and the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness be available to all around the world. I hope there will be people who will work to make their countries the best they can be. Peace to all.

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Music Monday – Neil Diamond – America #independenceday #4thofjuly

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This is my favorite contemporary song about America. Neil Diamond speaks and sings from a place welcoming and hospitality, two things America should be about always.

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Nope To Trump

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This says it all. Wrong for America and the world.

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Reflections on a “Great America”

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In watching the Red Nose Day special last night I was reminded of how life in other places is full of challenges and heartache. Even in our own country you find areas where people are struggling and just trying to get by. For the most part our country is one of great wealth and opportunity but it seems for only a few. If you have your health and a roof over your head you are doing better than most. Greed is not good and politically it seems to be a rallying cry. A great nation will be one where people of all faiths, creeds, no faith, orientation and heritage will be able to have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Anything less than that is just average.