Day 916: Independence Day

The fireworks were flat and had little meaning tonight.  I stood in line for a half hour to get Steve a doughboy.  At the same time, Mary stood in two lines to get candied apples and waffles.  While we waited, the fireworks started, but a tree obscured our view and I really didn't care.  The three of us sat and watched the displays and I was thinking, "Mary Ann, Ginger, Professor."  Kids around us clapped and cheered, but it was generally quiet.

The Supreme Court decision on Monday is so disturbing.  It has already been directed from permitting Hobby Lobby and other family owned corporations to control women's access to contraceptives to discrimination against gays.   The grounds? religious freedom.  Such baloney.   The three women justices are outraged, and Justice Ginsberg offered a warning that is already being realized.  I am so sick of men making decisions about women's bodies and further institutionalizing discrimination.  I have oversimplified this issue here, I know, but it has soured my feelings about the meaning of this day.

We went up to see Steve and see his garden. It was the highlight of the day.  I only swam 100 lengths cause I was just so tired.  It was probably a good thing to have an easy day.