Step out of the shadows and write a motivational story about yourself. It doesn’t have to be published, but like a diary, a seed of energy, a motivational tool. If I could do it at 72, so can you. We, as Americans, have one thing in common. We become grandparents. Grandparents, as a group operating from the same page, could be the most potent group ever. Cartilage in helping America to talk to each other in earnest, across all lines of perceived differences, instead of about each other. Role models for our youth to outnumber the bullies who reside in every crevice of our society. Begin by writing initially an extramental for each grandchild, introducing it gradually as they learn to read—a preamble to this stage for growth in a positive mental attitude. 

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

― Edmund Burke

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.