We’re taking a few days off to celebrate with our American friends and family. Finlay ON Governance has a remarkably diverse readership from literally every part of the globe. So whether you’re in Australia or Spain or Japan or the Netherlands, it would be nice to think that you, too, will take a moment to share in a bit of thanks –remembering that there is much to be grateful for, just as there is much worth standing up to preserve.
The photo on the left, by the way, is of the original proclamation, issued by President George Washington on October 3, 1789, denoting a day of Thanksgiving to observe “…the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed.” I have passed by the building near Wall Street where he signed it on many occasions and still get a thrill each time.
To paraphrase Wordsworth, Washington! Thou shouldst be living at this hour: America hath need of thee.
All the best, wherever you may be.
J. Richard Finlay