Founder s birthday events kindle hope for the future
Patrick Henry
Abraham Lincoln, puzzled, asks, “Mary, is today my birthday or George Washington’s?” A cartoon from long ago reminds me that we of a certain age learned to distinguish between the first president’s Feb. 22 and the sixteenth’s Feb. 12. Kids today, given vacation on the third Monday in February, “Presidents’ Day,” find the cartoon unintelligible.
I will remember Feb. 22, 2021, not because it was George Washington’s 289th birthday, but because it included three events – one on TV, the other two via Zoom – that are harbingers of a future that can be better than a return to “the old normal.” As economist Paul Romer once said, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.”
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