Those Who Inspire Us, The Forty-Second Week in the Second Year in the New Abnormal

I’ve been watching Dear… on Apple TV. I found it by accident. While looking for another program a small square with Selena Gomez’s image caught my eye. I clicked on her framed face and came upon Dear… I watched the 30-minute segment and was immediately hooked.

The series features individuals in the public eye, some athletes, actors, writers, or activists, as they engage with letters of those who have been inspired by them The featured famous person’s influence has helped to change the letter writers’ lives.

We all have people in our lives, those who have touched us, helping us to be our better selves. My first memory of someone like that was Mrs.Schlosberg, my first-grade teacher at Stafford Elementary School in Cherry Hill, NJ. Prior to her coming to our school, my classroom was in a corner of the school auditorium. Our teacher was a mean woman who had me sit in the corner on a daily basis because I laughed out loud, a young child’s nervous…