This is not my father’s country …
When something as simple as a dog’s bandana strikes you as inspirational you know there is so little representation that something so simple stands out today. Let me expound on this a bit.
First, I rarely to never write about my personal feelings about what’s going on in our communities or our country (with the exception of the wind turbines, but that’s a separate topic altogether). I was walking my dog, which was wearing a red, white and blue striped bandana in honor of Flag Day.
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