Alva Review-Courier -

I knew the world I left behind as a teenager; the world of baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, the American flag, waiting for the mail, catalog orders and summer vacation. I understand that much of that is changing and the health of the whole planet is at risk. According to Time magazine, we can’t let that realization control us and 2020, jokingly the year of the optometrist, should be the year we look internationally, intergenerationally, interracially and individually.

As institutions have come to the point of discord over gender and sexual preference, it signals a time of division, not unity, an...