This weekend my partner and I went to a wedding for a friend we have known for six years, for a couple who has been together for five. It was wonderful to be able to share in their day, to see the two of them so happy. It was wonderful to get to spend the weekend with my partner, too. The weather was lovely, the drive was easy, and the company was great.

Congratulations T&K!

Poem for July 4th

I Like Americans
by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I like Americans.

You may say what you will, they are the nicest people in the world.

They sleep with their windows open.

Their bathtubs are never dry.

They are not grown up yet.

They still believe in Santa Claus.

They are terribly in earnest. But they laugh at everything…

I like Americans.

They give the matches free…

I like Americans. They are the only men in the world, the sight of whom in their shirt-sleeves is not rumpled, embryonic and agonizing…

I like Americans. They carry such pretty umbrellas. The Avenue de l’Opera on a rainy day is just an avenue on a rainy day. But Fifth Avenue on a rainy day is an old-fashioned garden under a shower…

They are always rocking the boat.

I like Americans. They either shoot the whole nickel, or give up the bones.

You may say what you will, they are the nicest people in the world.

Found in Caroline Kennedy's book, read aloud here by Stephen Colbert and Caroline Kennedy