"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." -- Charles Dickens
I love our country! I marvel that we seem to be so fiercely and evenly divided. The results of the election reminded me of a passage in one of my all time favorite books - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. How we all live in the same place and see things so differently is one of our strengths as a nation. It provides our checks and balances and keeps our passion for this country stirred. I don't know if we are at the end of the world or the dawn of a new day (although I do have my own theories) . . . but I find that this is not a new theme - because apparently in the year of 1775 the emotions ran just as high and the zeal for country burned just as bright as it does today. (never mind what happened after that paragraph in the book . . . hahaha)
May God bless America!
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