Ball Point #17: “Charles Barkley was wrong.  We are all role models, even if we don’t want to be.”

Others see us in the ways we act and they hear what we say.  We will be remembered decades later for what we said or did today, or what we didn’t say or do.  We don’t care about some of those who will remember, but there are those we don’t want to disappoint.

Usually this is family--especially children and grandchildren. Sometimes it is parents or colleagues.

It’s easy for us to spout something that we think will be a quick fix for a problem.  It’s another for us to do and say what is right and hunker down for the long haul. This is especially hard when we don't acknowledge we are part of the problem ourselves.

Ball Point #23: "A Public Information Officer (PIO) never, ever, tells a lie."
    I define "lie" as "knowingly giving false information."
    President's Trump new spokesperson did that in an extraordinary way, causing great consternation among many about his fitness.  Was he pressured?  Was he a willing accomplice?  Did he believe what he said?  Should he have said, "No"?  Did he do this to intentionally deflect attention from the marches?
   He is now like the little boy who cried "Wolf"--and he's just beginning his first full week on the job.
It will be ugly.  And I fear it is only the beginning?