thealmostsanevegan:

i-am-having-an-emotion:

s/o to @thealmostsanevegan for putting up with my delighted laughter/cackling during this first real thunderstorm of the summer

How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean, by Providence impoverished in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar? The ten dollar founding father without a father got a lot farther by working a lot harder, by being a lot smarter, by being a self-starter, by 14, they placed him in charge of a trading charter. And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted away, across the waves he struggled and kept his guard up. Outside he was longin’ for something to be a part of; the brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter.