250 Years.

We are a troubled country, and a divided one, but there is always so much good to be found here.

I hope that people abroad will see that in us. And we should take pride when we see it in ourselves.



An America 250 commemorative flag flies in Fraser, Colorado, on May 25, 2026. The flag celebrates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Photo credit: Tony Webster, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Washington Monument during “America 250” Celebration, photo by G. Edward Johnson, 2026

A 13-star “Betsy Ross” American flag projected on the sides of the Washington Monument as part of the “America 250” United States Semiquincentennial. Washington, DC, January 1, 2026. G. Edward Johnson.

American flag projected on the Washington Monument. G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

the air is burning

that is all

Variant cover to “Haunt” #13, Ryan Ottley, 2011

Image Comics. Cover C.

Also … “wifeable?” This is a word?





Album cover for Martha And The Vandellas’ “Heat Wave,” 1963

Motown Record Corporation.

Poster for “Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World” (2003)

20th Century Fox.

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