I’m making Floral Apricot Zen Brownies. Also just packaged the Apricot & Lilac-Wulong Tea Ice Pops.
The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men too-great enough to give fame to a great age. … The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration.
Frederick Douglass
I’m taking a few moments to re-read Frederick Douglass’ oration on Independence; it’s brilliant, insightful, and particularly relevant today.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and to the future.
Let us learn. Let us celebrate. Let us use the moment to make the past useful and the future worth looking forward to.