What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.
Being an American is something I wanted to be for a very long time, probably since I saw the moon landing when I was a child.
But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.