OGT DAILY Day Three Hundred and Sixty Five HEROES

This is it.  This is the last post I will make on OGT DAILY.   It was started 366 days ago on Martin Luther King Jr Day and thus I am ending on this day as well.  It has been a supreme pleasure to entertain you these many months and to reap the benefits of a gratitude practice.  I cannot recommend it enough.

I wanted to make sure to devote this last post to heroes.  If there was ever a time when we needed to remember those who shine as examples for the rest of us it is now.

Martin Luther King is at the top of the list.   A quote from him that I heard today:

"When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters...”

Others are John Lewis, Corretta Scott King, the founders of the Women's March, Black Lives Matter, the editors and reporters of the New York Times, the Washington Post and all those dedicated to continuing to report the news in the face of threats to the media, Masha Gessen, Krista Tippett, my sister Liz and her wife Eileen for starting an active and effective Indivisible group which as effected real change locally,  Kzir Khan and his wife, people standing up for clean water in Detroit, the first responders and rescue crews who are helping to clean up Houston and Puerto Rico and the fires and mudslides in California, the countries of the world who continue to abide by the Paris Climate Accord, Daniel Macron, Malala Yousefsai, the men and women of our armed forces who risk their lives every day despite wasteful and foolish leadership choices, the police and fire control workers who commit to a difficult job despite adversity and politics.   Parents and teachers who continue to teach honesty and values of democracy and free thought despite the assault on public education and common decency.   I have forgotten so many and the list could go on forever for I believe the world is filled with more heroes than it is villains.

We need to look to our leaders and we need to become leaders to move to another era where integrity and honesty carry more weight.   

So for now - so long, farewell and I hope to return again.   If not as OGT DAILY perhaps in another form.  But I encourage you yourself to take up the practice, looking for the good each - creating the good each day and making the word a better place.