I shot this photo at Long Point light house in Provincetown Harbor in June of 2022.

It was a perfect day: We had the bluest sky and the brightest sunshine overhead,

It was the kind of day where anyone could take a photo of anything, and with that sky in the background, it would be beautiful. So, I consider myself a lucky photographer, more than a skillful one.

This photograph is not intended to be a commentary on my own spirituality, or on the state of our nation. If anything, it represents a healthy skeptioptimism about……everything.

But, on Independence Day I will say that I consider myself fortunate to have been born here in the United States. Our nation is not perfect, but it provides us with many freedoms and opportunities that are not available to the citizens of much of the rest of the world.

I am also grateful to those who have fought, and continue to fight on battlegrounds, in government, in courtrooms, and in the streets to protect our freedoms and opportunities. May we progress to a time when those freedoms and opportunities will be afforded equally, without bias or discrimination, to all citizens of our nation, and the world.

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