Once again a hearty wish for a safe, happy, and prosperous 4th of July from team ChiWulff.
Get outside, soak up some sun and make some vitamin D, throw a fly (if your local waters are cool enough or your fish are otherwise suited for warm weather – we’re chasing pond panfish and bass this morning), and eat some damned good food today.
Get the kids (or grandkids) out tonight and enjoy your local fireworks display (as Jess did in Craig a few years back when spending a season working at Headhunters – that’s her image to the right).
We’d also encourage you to take a moment and remember what this day is about – in part it’s about celebrating the birth of a nation that, warts and all, is still a damned fine place despite what some are otherwise incessantly trying to convince you.
I’ve been reading Thomas Paine of late, and leave you with a couple of quotes from his writings –
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
—Thomas Paine“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”
—Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
