I just finished John Adams, by David McCullough

and my sensibilities have yet to recover. As an American who avoids party spirit and gives in to cynical diatribes far too often, I feel renewed and revitalized. My party is the United States of America.

What an eye-opening book. John Adams embodied what we see as an American citizen. Flawed, eccentric, intelligent, a voracious reader and student, determined, and quintessentially American, this man deserves recognition as the man who saved this country multiple times.

Read this book. Read it and weep.

Raise your hand

if you want to know what this country was founded on. What drove our Founding Fathers to what they did for us.

I quote from John Adams by David McCullough:

"One day, as [Adams] and Benjamin Rush sat together in Congress, Rush asked Adams in a whisper if he thought America would succeed in the struggle. 'Yes,' Adams replied, 'if we fear God and repent our sins.'"

Marvelous. It gives me tingles.