America is what an individual makes of it. Many make it their place of success, build loving families and pursue happiness while others make it their place of loneliness, disappointment and misery.

Given choices of other places that one could be on this planet, ours appears to be the better choice which is why immigration here is so important to so many.

When things appear to get crazy for me, all I have to do is stop for moment, take a deep breath and recall the Serenity Prayer:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. and then I mentally close with, "This too shall pass."