Welcome to the American Story. We have released a new story every week since Constitution Day

2019 and this is our final episode. I am immeasurably grateful to all of you for your personal notes, words of encouragement,

five-star reviews, generous donations, and for all you have done to share these stories across

the country and around the world. Thanks to you, we have 129 evergreen episodes,

a collection of stories about the things that make America the country we know and love.

I hope each story contains some beautiful truth about our country that is worth hearing again and again.

This is Chris Flannery with the Claremont Institute, wishing you and yours a happy new year. I call this one resolution. New Year's day is

the morning of the year.

Like the mornings of mere days, it inspires fresh hope, but on an immensely grander scale.

Each morning we wake after disappearing in sleep for a split second of eternity,

surprised again to find ourselves still here.

Like strong coffee, the discovery is rejuvenating.

Then we reflect that we have once again successfully spun around Earth's axis.

If we're at a northern latitude somewhere between Santa Fe and Cheyenne,

we have traveled 20,000 miles since

yesterday, just spinning from day to night and back to day. We begin to wonder at

ourselves and take on small but innocent airs.

When we further reflect that without batting an eye or breaking a sweat, we have rocketed

over a million and a half miles in our orbit around the sun since this time a day ago,

and that we are going to start over and perform these same mysteries and miracles again in a mere 24 hours.

We become almost tempted to the sin of pride.

We feel that the Frenchman might have stumbled on to something when he counseled that

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