Out of all hooping

“It is a difficult patriotism, mine. Patriotism, by definition, should be difficult, perhaps. Unstinting agreement and zealous, unalloyed defense should be reserved for God or family, not government. Still, the passionate love of country that divides us is also the glue that binds us. A common note of culture, comprehension, and at last, of comfort. We still may not have found what we’re looking for, but home is the place you go where they have to take you in, and looking toward it, I can only be glad that it is there. No other answers but that: I am glad that it is there.”