America’s Birthday today. Maybe birthdays are the perfect place for starting over. For wiping the slate clean, admitting where we went wrong, and starting fresh. Maybe we can wake up, see the terrifying directions we are moving, the humanitarian crises playing out in real time, and do something about it. We are a nation built on hope, but built on shaky foundations, and we need to tear a lot down to fix the wobbling. We are better than this, we truly are, and so maybe, just maybe, we can use this birthday as a kick in the pants to start again. This is what I will think with every sound of every firework tonight, this is what I will see, the Big Bang explosions in the black of space that ignites all life in this strange and confusing country. Let’s begin again. Now. Happy Fourth of July. . . . #tylerknott #tylerknottgregson #fourthofjuly #4thofjuly #bebetter #hope #newstart #fixthis #fireworks #flag (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzf7ZhBFTAI/?igshid=10y88famzq9da