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“Home isn’t something you wait to be handed. Home is something you build — with courage, brains, and heart.” — Sue Davis, Is America the Greatest?
The Road Home
I was born in Kansas. Maybe that makes me Dorothy — not just because of where I came from, but because of my eternal optimism. Dorothy’s greatest asset in The Wizard of Oz was never the slippers. It was her unwavering compassion, the hope that carried her through storms and fear. That compassion fueled her courage, inspired her friends, and gave her the strength to lead. The ruby slippers were only a means to an end. It was Dorothy’s internal strength that made her journey successful.
And like her, I’ve seen behind the curtain, where the wizards were nothing more than con men selling fear. I’ve walked the crooked yellow brick road of America’s last 250 years — past its brilliance, its betrayals, its monsters, and its hope. And like Dorothy, I know now: home isn’t something you wait to be handed. Home is something you build — with courage, with brains, with heart.
That’s where we’ve lost our way. Too many of us got lazy. We let the bullies and the billionaires write our story. We watched cruelty win while compassion sat silent. We traded decency for domination, justice for slogans, and goodness for greed. The brand of “Americans are good people” slipped through our fingers, and the world noticed. Xi, Putin, the authoritarians — they see a distracted, divided America, more invested in cheering cruelty than protecting freedom. That is not who we were meant to be.
But here’s the hope, the truth I hold with every beat of my heart: most people are good. History shows it. Stories remind us of it. The good outweighs the bad — if we rise and act like it.
We are not a nation of victims. We are not a people without power. We are a people who can roar with courage like the Lion, think clearly like the Scarecrow, and love fiercely like the Tin Man. That’s America.
And for the younger generations who may need a refresh: those three friends weren’t perfect, but they discovered they already had what it took to lead, to love, to rebuild. So do we.
That’s the choice before us. Not to go back, but to go forward. To take our place in history not as the nation that gave up, but as the people who woke up.
And for me, born in Kansas, it ends here:
I’m clicking my red, white, and blue heels three times. Not to return to some myth of greatness, but to remind us that greatness is ours to build.
That home — the America we dream about — is not lost. It’s waiting.
The next 250 years start now.
And there is no place like home.
