"I Love This Country"

Day 182

My brain is even tired! Truly it is! But it is just cognizant enough to know that there have been little happy spots:

Finally got much-needed errands run.

Did my first batch of laundry since moving in (I have to use the complex laundromat now).

Delicious meals--oh, you should try them. They're so good.

More great storytimes.

An enjoyable audio book.

Beginning a "promising" novel--an Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) from ALA (thanks, roommie!) by an author whose other two works I enjoyed. (Of course, I keep nodding off every few paragraphs as I've been doing of late with any print book because the mind thinks "We're slowing now? OK--sleep time!")

My first herb plant!

But best of all--today at least--I am loving reading quotes on freedom, patriotism, etc. from our LDS prophets.

Two of today's favorites by Brigham Young:

"I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government."

"Sustain the government of the nation wherever you are, and speak well of it, for this is right, and the government has a right to expect it of you, so long as that government sustains you in your civil and religious liberty, in those rights which inherently belong to every person born on the earth and if you are persecuted in your native land, and denied the privilege of worshipping the true God in spirit and in truth, flee to the land of Zion, to America—to the United States, where constitutional rights and freedoms are not surpassed by any nation—where God saw fit, in these last days, to renew the dispensation of salvation, by revelations from the heavens, and where all, by the constitution and laws of the land, when executed in righteousness, are protected in all the civil and religious freedom that man is capable of enjoying on earth; and our national institutions will never fail, unless it be through the wickedness of the people, and the designs of evil men in brief authority; for those rights were ordained of God on this land; for the establishment of the principles of truth on the earth; and our national organization originated in the heavens."