Today I am celebrating my freedom as an American.  Today I am celebrating my freedom to live in a country where my vote can be recorded without undue influence.  There are many, many other benefits of being an American. We are a well fed nation – perhaps too well fed if you look at the obesity in our citizens.  We have the benefit of speaking up freely without being imprisoned or killed on a street by our government’s soldiers.  I have the freedom to worship at a church or synagogue of my choice.

Today I am also celebrating my freedom to express myself on a blog.  Thank goodness that I am able to share information, my opinions, my feelings and observations in a free manner – without censorship or editorial restrictions.  While my Parkinson’s Disease restrains my freedom to move, speak, swallow, sleep and write, it doesn’t restrict my freedom to think and express myself.

For all of its’ imperfections, the United States of America really is the land of the free and the home of the brave.