Hi Everyone,
Happy Halloween!!!
Thank you to the social team for setting up the spooky happy hour. It was fun to see everyone in costume and having a good time. I am finding gratefulness in the little things that we can do to keep a semblance of normalcy during this challenging year.
I am also grateful that each of you will have next Tuesday off to go vote and/or participate in supporting the election process. I thought I’d share one of my favorite sections from the Declaration of Independence.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”
Democracy is an amazing innovation. Instead of a revolution, which comes with partial or total destruction of a society, we cast our votes and every four or eight years, we peacefully transition our government. I know many of you may be worried about this upcoming election, let’s trust the 244 years of institutional strength we’ve built in our country. I am confident that regardless of the outcome, our country will continue to prosper.
I’ll leave you with an excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s 1980 election-eve national address. “… These visitors to that city on the Potomac do not come as white or black, red or yellow; they are not Jews or Christians; conservatives or liberals; or Democrats or Republicans. They are Americans awed by what has gone before, proud of what for them is still… a shining city on a hill.”
Let’s go be great!
Brad
March 26, 2021