One of countless creches that have gone up around the neighborhood this week.
Beautifully-detailed wooden cornices on an old apartment building on 3rd Avenue.
This message became a meditation for me.I thought about how the physical bravery of soldiers in battle is only one of many kinds of bravery.
It takes bravery to tell the truth, to be real, to do what's right.
The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Emancipation, Universal Suffrage, the Labor Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation are all the result of incredible bravery.
Land of the Free.
Because of the Brave.
Like Thomas Tamm:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/174601
