I recently found at the bottom of a drawer a t-shirt I bought more than 30 years ago at the National Storytelling Festival that said, “The elders are watching,” with a few of those elders peering down at us through from the clouds.
It reminded me of the old adage to live each day as if what we did would be on the front page of the evening newspaper, an admonition about the judgments of our contemporaries rather than our elders.
Our individual and collective lives would be much improved, I think, if we lived each day as if respected elders and peers, living or dead, were watching us.
Who would be your respected elders and peers? And what behaviors would you change or make certain to continue if you knew they were watching?
Dennis Sparks on re·sil·ience 
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