Today is the day we should together derive our individuality from a combination of collective identity; sex, race, social class, vocation and nationality. For some its about our beliefs, political and religious. And today we should lump it all together as nationality.
But I already have this one sense of personal identity, and it is derived from only one context. The sense of place.
So instead of crowding I think we should celebrate the land by go out watching and listening to a wonderful sunrise instead. Get in true contact with earth. With place. And really get to meet a beautiful landscape and gasp together with it in a breath of wonder and amazement.
That is what makes me feel part of something that is much bigger than me.
It is what I am sharing with my family everyday.