Happy Residents' Day!
Residents' Day is cool new holiday I just invented. It happens on the same day as President's Day but it has one fewer letters, and it celebrates all the awesome people we have here in the United States of America.
Our Residents.
Who are the Residents?
If you were born here and you live here you are a Resident.
If you weren't born here and you live here you are a Resident.
If you were born here and live abroad, call yourself a Resident if you want to. Why not?
Immigrants are Residents. If you've got a green card, you are a Resident. If you don't got a green card, you are also a Resident.
If you hopped over the wall yesterday and slept the night with a rock beneath your head, bienvenue my fellow Resident.
Residents' Day doesn't care about your social standing, political viewpoint, or legal status. If you reside here you are a Resident, and this day celebrates you!
If you are dead you were a Resident, and Residents' Day values that, but mostly Residents' Day is a day to honor the living.
George Washington was a famous and important Resident, but he is dead and so this isn't really about George Washington. We celebrate Residents Day alongside Presidents Day, not in place of it.
What Residents Day is about is broadening the celebration. Residents Day says we celebrate not just the Presidents, but all of the Residents. Including everybody.
While Presidents' Day celebrates political leaders our history, Residents' Day celebrates who we are right now.
Residents' Day says "I see you, fellow Residents, and you are awesome. Now go forward with love."
Happy Residents' Day!