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I long to one day live in a country with more freedom available to me and everyone I know and don’t know, more than we’ve all ever known. And for that to be this country. But that has felt like…

Freedom is the opportunity for each person to have what they need to move towards who they want to be.  This means recognition, access, support, communication, and a reconfiguration of hierarchies so that what we strive for advances others as…

Freedom. What a concept. “Free to be.” Free of pain and most importantly,  other people’s intolerance, their hatred and their violence. As Nina Simone once so famously said: “Freedom is living without fear.” I cannot better such a description. That’s…

For me, it’s important to approach America’s 250th anniversary as a patriot, not a nationalist. As a patriot, I want to be proud of my country and use my voice and actions in every way possible to shape the nation…

I am thinking of my cat, who is free to wander the house and make her own choices of when to eat, where and when to lie down and go to sleep. Her freedom exists within constraints imposed by me—for…

Freedom is learning to recognize and understand the real difference between illusion and the reality of being free.

This year, 2026, is the 250th anniversary of American independence. This 4th of July will be a bombastic celebration of an independence that came at an unbearably high cost for the original stewards of this land. We cannot surrender to…