A Welcome Mat for our Workers.

Hey, if they're good enough to roof our homes, clean our offices, change our elderly, carry our children, make our meals, and pick up our rooms, they're good enough be recognized in the sunshine as well as the shadows.

Competition is key, and the reality is: people are here. (Childless workers too!) We're not a nation of hypocrites. If they can drive in the next lane, worship in the next pew, and put their deposits in an adjoining account, then they're one of us.

Watching fireworks, playing music in the parks, grilling meats in the back yard... I see them here already, and I bet you do too. Are we really more entitled as a people -- to take their work, and give them just Wal-Mart trinkets in return?

I thought we believed in assimilation, community buy in?

Let them stay, let them compete openly, let them sacrifice themselves for their future generations. It's the American Dream, and it's long past time we keep rewarding wins to American kids, while so many contributors are sitting in the same country sidelined. In fact, the best-set American kids right now are already living alongside and studying with newcomers from all continents: diversity is prized in the achieving set, the idea being to expose the young, as much as possible, to all the beauty and magnificence still possibly out there in our shared world.

Come and get it... *

I believe it's not genetics, not inheritances, nor fixing the game that made America great as a nation. It's competition. Honest, hard competition where consequences count, you live and learn, and never stop growing. Family matters, faith follows, and friends don't have to share everything about you.

Welcome then, to those already here and to the better Future still to come, in many ways, for all of us. Amen.
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* I asked of Life, what have you to offer?
and the reply came: What have you to give?

Happy Friday, friends! Get busy perfecting those Grape Salad recipes, or inventing a Bigger, Better, Badder Grape Slicing contraption, now that the market is there, whichever is your wont...