I wanted to take a moment to wish my fellow Appleseeders a merry Christmas, and to offer a few words of encouragement from a Founding Father as we venture into the New Year:
"It may be the will of Heaven that America shall suffer calamities still more wasting and distressing yet more dreadful. If this is to be the case, it will have this good effect, at least: it will inspire us with many virtues, which we have not, and correct many errors, follies, and vices, which threaten to disturb, dishonor, and destroy us. The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals."
-John Adams, July 3rd 1776