America's horrors and failures are many and real. They riddle our past and present and will no doubt find their way into our future. But it's a strange form of American exceptionalism that leads us to believe that they're unique to our fifty faulty stars. They're not. They are but a speck of the world's collective horrors and failures. And that's because they are, at their center, human failings, born of our shared nature and spread across countries and cultures and generations.
Harry Dean Stanton pointed the way home
Shine on you crazy diamond
Happy Birthday to
Beatiful Spacious Skies
Amber Grain Fields
Majestic Mountains Over the Midwest Plains
God Bless America and forgive Her sins against humanity
James Felice rules his ivory and bellows