Happy Birthday, Clara Miller!

My mother turns 85 this week. How did that happen?

When we were growing up, Mom told us about her mother giving food to the unfortunate out the back door of their modest home in Highland Park, MI during the Great Depression. My mother became a nurse. She did “charity work”. She passed this sense of caring and community and the satisfaction that comes from doing good on to her children and we have passed it on to ours.

My mother has a generosity of spirit worthy of emulation. What if everyone embraced the social responsibility movement, not just government tax dollars or corporate responsibility, but individually? Could we bridge the giant chasm between rich and poor? What changes would we see in the world? I wonder....