The Daily Flag

This day I completed my thirty first year, and conceived that I had in all human probability now existed about half the period which I am to remain in the Sublunary world.  
 I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little, indeed, to further the happiness of the human race, or to [...]

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For Christmas in 1996, I gave my son the book, Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose. He was pleased and surprised, and insisted that I immediately open his gift to me; it was The Journals of Lewis & Clark.
I love my copy of The Journals, [...]

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