07/04/2026
We will be closed today for some deep reflection.
Today we're holding a few things at once.
We love this country — the people in it, the communities we get to be part of, the freedoms worth protecting. We're grateful for that, and we mean it.
We're also holding the harder truths: that the founders who wrote about liberty owned other human beings, that "patriotism" can curdle into something darker if we're not careful, and that loving a country doesn't mean looking away from what it's done — or what it's doing now.
For a lot of us, this year especially, pride in our country feels complicated. If that's you — if the fireworks and flags feel more uneasy than celebratory right now — we get it, and there's space for that here too.
So today, we're celebrating the people, the community, and the hope that this country can still become more of what it claims to be. That feels worth celebrating.
Wishing you a thoughtful Fourth.
