The problem is we have lost trust in our institutions. And that isn’t our fault. I don’t believe the weather. I don’t believe the news. I get angry every day at the Times and the Journal. I even get angry at ESPN.  I don’t trust the big companies or any religion.  How do we get that back? Why can’t these institutions understand the sacred nature of trust? Why do they consistently violate that trust?  It’s up to them to earn this trust back from us.

I tell my kids to learn to question everything and because I do now.   To be especially careful of the pundits, the politicians and the proselytizers.  I tell them to trust their own instincts.  To be themselves.  To never lose their sense of humor because you need a lot of that to get through the day.  And I tell them to never lose perspective.  In the words of Groucho Marx:  “Who you gonna believe?  Me, or your own eyes?”

Trust your own eyes.