Great Can Always Be Better

It was a relaxing holiday weekend with tremendous weather. Happy Birthday America!

This is a great country. We are blessed.

I watched a new "Globe Trekker" through Pakistan on PBS over the weekend. The living conditions in most of the country were amazing, amazingly poor. No running water, public water stations to bathe in and wash clothing in, just down-right dirty, filthy, third-world living conditions that broke my heart to see.

How fortunate we are.

This country is very patriotic and proud, and we should be.

But you can never rest on your achievements. Even when you're the best, actually especially when you're the best, you have to strive harder than ever to maintain achievement.

I sometimes worry that we rest on our laurels and ignore lessons from countries around the world who are much older and experienced than we are as a country.

But on the other hand is there such a thing as too fast? If we develop so rapidly that we leave many other countries behind, we create a division of classes, which never seems to breed anything positive.

It's a tough thing. Hopefully we can find away to continue to advance, while taking heed to the lessons of the past, and not leave anyone else behind. It's a lot to ask. It's a big task.

Unexplicably I did not pop the lid on the grill this weekend. It just happened that way. It's just one of those things.

We've got a lot going on over here. It ranges from crazy stuff like Freckles appointment with the vet to more serious stuff like health care research and funding.

I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend!