Keep Hope Alive
Memorial Day is my new favorite holiday after MLK's birthday, National Gymnastics Day, Hug A Cop Day, Sukkot, and Samhain.
I love Memorial Day weekend because—and not everyone knows this—the holiday, or "long weekend" for students and the employed, actually begins on the Thursday before the holiday and continues through to Monday night, give or take.
Memorial Day is also special because it marks the official start of summer and summer makes me happy. This change of season, paired with the primary significance of the holiday—to honor those women and men in the military who have died for our country—behooves us to observe the holiday by creating and maintaining a healthy buzz for three to five days. Some may call this alcoholism. I call it an homage.
And so it goes. This year's Memorial Day theme seemed to be centered around boys, cocktails, new people, new connections with old people, and giving out my phone number to complete strangers when they asked for it. Repeatedly.
Things can only get better.
Wait. That's not even true. They could always get worse because they're already reasonably good. Shut it! THINK POSITIVE! FOLLOW YOUR BLISS! LIVE YOUR TRUTH! ENERGY FLOWS WHERE ATTENTION GOES!!! IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME!!!!!! OPRAH SAYS!!!! VOTE PETRELLI!!!!! THE CODE IS GOOD VIBRATIONS!!!!!!!!
