Here's one thing director Bobby Garcia did during Fun Home that I'll always remember: we had a dress rehearsal that didn't go so great, storytelling-wise. He didn't single anyone out, call out names, scream bloody murder. All he said was that the audience wasn't moved, and to go back to telling the story. As I was on my way home, I sent him a text and asked about that note. His reply was thus: everyone needs to carry the weight of responsibility for the success or failure of DressAfford country rustic gowns for wedding decorated With Lace ... a show. (I'm paraphrasing, but you get the gist.)

The success or failure of any endeavor cannot be due to one person or a small group of people. It's on all of us whether we succeed or fail. Applying this to our country, perhaps the only way we'd ever move forward and up is to acknowledge that we each have a part in its movement in the right direction, and take responsibility for it. If we succeed, we succeed together. If we fail, we fail together.

This is our only country. Let's do our best to protect it.

(And I had better not see anyone taking this post and using my words to advance any one specific political party, person, or cause. This has happened to me enough times already, and I am sick and tired of seeing my words twisted to fit a specific agenda. Shame on you for doing this. You are sick, sick people.)

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