You know what I love about America?  We will celebrate just about anything.  Politics and preferences are set aside so we can all come together and toast a cold one to a battle that took place a few hundred years ago.  Or maybe we can do the same for a saint that chased some snakes.  These are just two examples of many different and diverse ways we celebrate.  When we’re not coming together for fun, we come together to honor time’s that were not so good with the same amount of energy and effort to show respect.  There was a time when we cared about our neighbor, hell, there was a time when we actually KNEW our neighbor.  We came together in times of happiness as well as sadness.  We showed respect to everyone and to other peoples things, beliefs and ideals.  They say you can never go back.  I sometimes wonder myself if we aren’t so far down the sewer pipe that we can no longer see the way we went in.  I for one, would sure love to see us come together the way we do when there is some reason to celebrate, made up or not, and work things out not worrying about whether it is good tv or how many hit’s it might get.  #cincodemayo #myaumakua #alohafriday