Tag: happy 4th of July
July 4, 2016 /

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide…

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July 4, 2016 /

“Independence …. is loyalty to one’s best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.” Mark Twain

July 4, 2014 /

Fireworks! 4th of July 1934

July 4, 2014 /

Happy 4th of July!

Good Night by Carl Sandburg (from Smoke and Steel, 1920) Many ways to say good night. Fireworks at a pier on the Fourth of July spell it with red wheels and yellow spokes. They fizz in the air, touch the water and quit. Rockets make a trajectory of gold-and-blue and…

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July 4, 2014 /

Independence Day! Have a great 4th, and if I don’t get too pruney from the pool I’ll pop in now and again…

July 4, 2014 /

Where to see the rocket’s red glare, fireworks in and around Los Angeles!