I'll be on hiatus around Independence Day. I'd like to take this opportunity to wish fellow citizens of the U.S.A. - and indeed, all citizens of the planet - a happy day.
"How does one hate a country, or love one? ...I know people, I know towns, farms, hills, and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? ...I love the hills ...but that sort of love does not have boundry-lines of hate." (Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness)
