Daily writing prompt

List the people you admire and look to for advice…

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My wife, my siblings and most of their spouses, our children and their spouses, our neighbor next door, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Colbert, Albert Einstein, Paula Poundstone, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Paul McCartney and all the Beatles– and George Martin; Alanis Morissette, Jon Stewart, Desi Lydic, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Pete Buttigieg, Barack Obama, Winston Churchill, Alexei Navalny, Jon Leavitt, PoliticsGirl, JoJofromJerz, Pope Leo, Rachel Maddow, Brian Tyler Cohen, Leonardo DaVinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Jim Lovell, Neil Armstrong, Sally Ride, Gene Kranz, Harper Lee, Jonas Salk, most any ER doctor, RNs who take their job seriously, our GP, a good mechanic, a good carpenter or plumber or electrician, and a couple of local farmers who work as hard as anyone I’ve ever known and are the personification of what people must mean when they use the phrase “salt of the earth.”

I’m sure I’ll think of others after submitting this.

Daily writing prompt

List the people you admire and look to for advice…

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My wife, my siblings, a brother-in-law, an uncle, our children and their spouses, a couple of college friends.

In the wider world, there are a few who seem to have, or had their heads screwed on properly and seen enough of life to be sensitive to the human condition– Abraham Lincoln, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, FDR, Maya Angelou, MLK, Jr., Erma Bombeck, Yuval Harari, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, several historians and comedians, and certain other authors and musicians who aren’t coming to mind.

Nobody in the Republican party, except a few defectors.

And, in a category all his own, the Apostle Paul. Not sure he ever existed, but I like what he had to say.