1. It is the first Monday in July. Amazingly, my favorite month of the year has arrived.
Fireworks from Neighborhood Block Party
Elkridge, MD
July 4, 2021
2. It was a fantastic 4th of July. The neighborhood got together for a great block party. It was the first year in many that we did not have our own backyard display.
3. The pool has cooled some, but it was still refreshing and enjoyable and I took some time to definitely enjoy it during the day.
4. It is vacation season and the world is beginning to open. I hear that the National Parks are jammed.
5. I wish I could spend some time on a beach today--but soon enough.
6. I enjoy taking pictures of fireworks!
7. And so the week begins. At least I have a day off today. I am playing racquetball this morning.
8. Today in History. On July 5, 1946, French designer Louis Réard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris. Parisian showgirl Micheline Bernardini modeled the new fashion, which Réard dubbed “bikini,” inspired by a news-making U.S. atomic test that took place off the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean earlier that week.
Champlain Towers Demolished as Storm Approaches Miami - The Wall Street Journal
Retail Investors Power the Trading Wave With Record Cash Inflows - The Wall Street Journal
Engineers who have examined the wreckage have been struck by a possible flaw in the building’s construction. - The New York Times
Vaccination Is the ‘Most Patriotic Thing,’ Biden Says on Independence DayVaccination Is the ‘Most Patriotic Thing,’ Biden Says on Independence Day - The New York Times
Thousands in D.C. celebrate a nearly normal Independence Day - The Washington Post
Iran, facing another virus surge, reimposes restrictions and focuses on homegrown vaccines - The Washington Post
Hackers demand $70 mln to restore data held by companies hit in cyberattack - Reuters
Tropical storm Elsa likely to pass near Florida Keys on Tuesday - Reuters
All through our history, our presidents and leaders have spoken of national unity and warned us that the real obstacle to moving forward the boundaries of freedom, the only permanent danger to the hope that is America, comes from within. It’s easy enough to dismiss this as a kind of familiar exhortation. Yet the truth is that even two of our greatest Founding Fathers, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, once learned this lesson late in life. They’d worked so closely together in Philadelphia for independence. But once that was gained and a government was formed, something called partisan politics began to get in the way. After a bitter and divisive campaign, Jefferson defeated Adams for the presidency in 1800. And the night before Jefferson’s inauguration, Adams slipped away to Boston, disappointed, brokenhearted, and bitter.
For years their estrangement lasted. But then when both had retired, Jefferson at 68 to Monticello and Adams at 76 to Quincy, they began through their letters to speak again to each other. Letters that discussed almost every conceivable subject: gardening, horseback riding, even sneezing as a cure for hiccups; but other subjects as well: the loss of loved ones, the mystery of grief and sorrow, the importance of religion, and of course the last thoughts, the final hopes of two old men, two great patriarchs, for the country that they had helped to found and loved so deeply. “It carries me back,”’ Jefferson wrote about correspondence with his cosigner of the Declaration of Independence:
July 4, 1986, Independence Day Speech Aboard the USS John F. Kennedy in New York Harbor
-- Bob Doan, Elkridge, MD
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