ALAN COHEN:
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
What Gives Me Hope
Friendship.
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by
Setting up community speeches and getting the people involved in the decision making. I would share the personal information and budgeting with them. We would be a family discussing our home, and I would be a counselor and friend; not a distant tyrant.
What/who changed my life and why
"Of Mice and Men," by John Steinbeck, changed my life because it made me realize that friendship is the strongest of all relationships, and that an act of friendship, is true courage, and true love.