Keeping up with America

Flying high at the Bridgewater Municipal Complex

By any measure, our nation is one of the world’s most advanced and diverse countries, especially when taking into account the size of our population – 321 million – and the vastness of our geography.

We have become a paradoxical wonder of modern civilization. Nonetheless, times are troubling:  Tens of millions of us find ourselves in the midst of a fragile tension and a nascent social fragmentation that is straining the threads of the American fabric.

There is political gridlock and a cultural upheaval not seen in decades, one that is punctuated with seemingly unremitting chaos and violence in our inner cities with no apparent, workable solution in sight.

Unrealistically, local police forces are expected to establish order, maintain the peace and establish good community relations where endless teams of social scientists, advisors, and elected officials have failed.

A Thanksgiving Message for all of Humanity

Annalee Dolls from Priscille's collection welcome our guests.

America is not such a bad place after all.  If it were, would there be such a tsunami of immigrants washing across this country seeking a better life?

The uncontrolled flow of immigrants into the United States would be even larger, were it not for two oceans separating us from the hundreds of thousands of Middle East refugees: 

They have no place to go, except to risk their lives to reach Europe and, once there, to seek solace and a good life in the heart of its great cities.

Moreover, if there were a geographic land bridge connecting the Middle East to America, Syrian refugees would be pouring across it to reach the U.S.

A visualization of the tired minds and bodies of undocumented Latin American immigrants streaming across our southern border, together with those of Syrian refugees desperately seeking asylum in Europe paints a self-evident picture: