The words regarding virtue, balance, broad definition of life investments tied to Aristotle logic of ideals are timely not only for our stressed and harried individual lives — but for our corporate well being as the United States of America. We can have different means to deal with medicare but without the willingness, the shared values, to put aside writing and visit our 85 year old disabled mother we will not have the spiritual and attitude threads to hold together in democratic compromise our many and contentious differences in tactics and means. My experience has been happiness as a by-product, something that happens in the mean time when I am living my life well and in service to those around me.