For the last six years, the birthday on 28 April of my nephew David John Huizenga has been "upstaged" by the same-day occasion for my grandson Nathanael David Howland Kleppinger. When I recognized this lacuna a little while ago, I ask David to choose a date when I could celebrate something for him -- and he chose the 4th of July, to honor "refugees . . . because celebrating our country’s founding should immediately imply care and welcome for the same sorts of weary travelers who established, emigrated to, and contributed to the welfare of the USA. I hope we can return more and more to true welcome of the desperate and the needy (MACA = Make America Compassionate Again)." We've agreed that the "thatch" pattern on this tie points to the interweaving of all sorts of colors and cultures that our nation aims to foster.
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