By Richard D. Lamm
Pick up 13-year old grandson from school. How’s school? “Fine”.
“Want to stop for a treat?” “Fine”
At 13, everything is “fine”. Suddenly he asks: “What do you know about the 6 day war?”
Breakthrough! Conversation? Curiosity??
No, he has a paper. Good enough for now.
There is so much I would like to share with him.
Like the square root of Texas. The boiling point of dirt. That the name of the last surviving Kamikaze pilot: “Chicken Teriyaki”. That trees moving makes the wind blow.
Then it dawns on me: He will do well without me.
There is little I can impart to him and much of that is wrong or outdated.
But I overlook the most important lesson.
Hopefully his parents and grandparents can teach him the most powerful idea in the Universe:
How to love!
Richard D. Lamm is a Colorado Grandparent and former governor of the State of Colorado
