To Whom Do We Report?

As we begin a new year, I'd like to invite all of us to find a photograph of a child who is precious to us and put it on our desks. Over the next 364 days, we will make a lot of decisions, most of which we will not even be conscious we have made. I'm hoping that in the middle of one of those unconscious decisions, the image of that child will catch our eyes and cause us to think about the decision in a different light. We don't really report to the man or woman in the big office. Or to the bottom line. Or to the expectations of our families or friends. Or even to our own consciences. We report to the children who will go on living in the world after we are gone -- and who will be living with the choices we have made.