I read of the challenges my good friend in England is going through and admire her courage. For many of us life is seemingly all uphill. To be on that grueling ascent and still be determined to find the good in life is amazing.

The clarity of our vision to live positively and effectively is inspiring. This world is a mixture of light and dark. There are days when we can climb the mountain…and other days when the mountain is on top of us. Much depends on what we do with what we have been given.

The author Helen Keller, a political activist, and lecturer who lost her sight and her hearing, when she was 19 months old, became the first deaf/blind person to earn a bachelor’s Degree from Radcliff College of Harvard University.

We fear our lack of education or advantage or money has locked us out of the door of opportunity. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Thomas Edison once said that his success in inventing came from 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.

My dear friend Jeff went from being homeless on the streets of Chicago, Illinois to being a multi-millionaire and the owner of his own business in the United Kingdom.

We all can take the lemons that life gives us and make our own derivation of lemonade. Each of our circumstances is different and yet we have the unbreakable similarity of being from the same family…the human family.

Each of us can make it with a little help from our friends. None of us has a stamp on our back that says Reject or Seconds. I admire President Biden who has suffered from stuttering since his childhood and has worked on it for his entire life. Now he could have said, Well I can not be a public official or certainly the President of the United States when I slip on some words…and words are the coin of the realm in politics… Not only did he not let his disability thwart his success but is known for meeting youngsters at his political rallies who are stutters and giving them his personal telephone number so they to call him and he encouraged their quest to overcome the malady.

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