I know we are always celebrating beauty. I know we are always celebrating light and color and the cleverness of inventors of beautiful things. Freedom, however, is a choice. Independence from tyranny is a choice, and a risk. Stay awake.
We’ve had a few years now of challenges to that priority of freedom and self-realization (1). We still have the ability, regardless of form of government, of being whole, sacrificial, strong and wise and loving.
Believe what you know and see and feel — not what you’re told.
(1) Merriam Webster’s dictionary defines self-realization as:
Fulfillment by oneself of the possibilities of one’s character or personality.
