We live in pursuit of freedom.
We imagine it as financial freedom, freedom of choice, and the freedom to control our own destiny.
Yet time and again, it slips through our fingers. Not because life has something against us, but because life is a mosaic too complex to arrange itself perfectly around our wishes.
Freedom does exist — only in forms and places we may not have thought to look.
Freedom is the right to enjoy being alive.
It is the right to love and to be loved.
It is surrounding ourselves with people who will stand by us in moments of crisis.
And above all — it is looking in the mirror and loving who we are, without needing a reason.
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This year, the Festival of Freedom will be spent by the best of our sons and daughters deep in enemy territory, fighting with their lives on the line so that we may remain free on our land in the year to come.
This holiday belongs to them.
Chag Sameach 😊🌹
Photo: Paul Lardet