Lilac Time, Again

 "With malice toward none, with charity for all..."

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

From Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, given in March,1865.

Before we return to our regularly scheduled programming, from what seems like a century long electoral season, I am once again affirming that Buttercupland is a lilac zone, the gentlest shade of red and blue mixed together. My post for the day after Election Day, 2016, was titled "Lilac Time," and in the spirit that Lincoln promoted I am reiterating that this is a place that offers charity and friendship to all who visit here.  My fervent wish is that on Election Wednesday, 2024, our country will be less divided and that there will be, as Lincoln wrote,  "a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."

I will be back tomorrow with a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I hope you'll be stopping by. 

As ever, thanks for visiting and take good care.