HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY
Today, on Independence Day, I spent a little time with the father of my country. No, it wasn’t in a séance or in the District of Columbia, which honors his name. It was in the Cascine Park in Florence, Italy where George Washington is memorialized. A month earlier, I was in the Republic of San Marino, the oldest republic in the world, which has maintained their independence since 1797. Their museum houses a letter written by Abraham Lincoln in 1861, when he was declared an honorary citizen. He wrote, “Although your dominion is small, your State is nevertheless one [...]