Another birthday comes and goes for our Republic. 231 years and counting. It’s been a good run with many amazing achievements and contributions to humanity. We now find ourselves looking at a midlife crisis as a country. Our “elected” leaders have been suborned by private interests, there is no visible integrity, and little hope of finding our way out.

But, it’s not in the American spirit to give up. Things may not be going well or right, but I do have faith that we can find our way forward and recover from the dark ages we’re living through at the beginning of this millennium.