Jack’s Winning Words  4/3/20 “The easiest thing in the world to be is you.  The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be.  Don’t let them put you into that position.”  (Leo Buscaglia)  I got a reminder this week that by Oct 2020 everyone will need an enhanced ID to board an airplane.  You will need to prove that you are you.  Fingerprints won’t do.  The odds of a DNA match?—1 out of 400 trillion.  Be proud of the fact that you are you (almost).  God broke the mold!  ;-)  Jack FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:      We’ve had an enhanced license since they first came out. Chart had accounts and factories in Canada.  And our passports.    Have you ever met someone’s hi saw a doppelgänger of you?===JACK:  Doppelganger?  I've about it, but I need help  (what did I do before Google?  The first search engine I used was called, "Dog Pile."...BTW, Do you have an exact twin somewhere in the universe…now or in the past?===JUDY:  I saw my twin riding up on an elevator at Hudson’s at Eastland.  My doppleganger was a guy who looked just like me only male.  It was very startling to say the least!  Somewhere there’s another Jack Freed.===JACK:  There are many Jack Freeds by name, but I have yet to meet my "ganger." FROM TL IN MI:  Every day, I’m intrigued by how you help us all do a “reset” in 7 or 8 lines of type.  I can only image what your 15 minute sermons did! I remember well how many sad people you helped at the funeral home.  You are gifted.  Thank you for sharing your gift with us EVERY DAY. You words mean more now than ever!  Thank you, friend!===JACK:  What I try to do is respond to those I'm with (face to face or on the internet).  Communication between friends is especially important in "trying" times.  Thanks FROM FACEBOOK LIZ:  yet no id to vote... hmmm.===JACK:  Changing times require changing ways of doing things.  We just have to be careful about how  the "disreputables" use our information. FROM ST PAUL:  Jack,  it is also true that you can board a plane with a regular drivers license in October along with  your Pass Port.    three people told me this at the local drivers license bureau so I assume it is true.   its just easier to have the much smaller enhanced license. ===JACK:  The speed of the way things are changing these days....October is a long, long, long way off. FROM TAMPA SHIRL:  I definitely don’t like to be told what to do or what to be!===JACK:  Ooooh!  I'm waiting to see what happens when your Florida governor says that you have to "shelter in place" like those of us in the rest of the US.  I've read that gun sales are skyrocketing. ===TS:    Everyone in our neighborhood has a gun! And everyone knows it!===JACK:  I hope that there's never a reply of "The Gunfight at the OK Corral" in your backyard. FROM NORM'S BLOG:  So, why is so hard for some  to just be yourself? I suspect that it is because we don’t necessarily like what we see when we look at ourselves. We take a mental “selfie” and immediately break out our copy of a virtual Photoshop to try to alter the picture. ===JACK:  Poet Robert Burns is famous for these words..."Oh, to have the gift to see us as others see us."  (I thing his poem is titled: "To a Louse."  ...or something like that.) FROM PC IN MI:  ·        The Department of Homeland Security is delaying the Real ID enforcement deadline another 12 months to Oct. 1, 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.  ·        All 50 states have an extension, which means passengers can continue to use their current driver’s licenses as usual for domestic travel.===JACK:  Thanks for the updated info.  Sooner or later, situations with cause old ways to be supplanted by new ways, as happened after 9/11.  People who find it difficult to change will have to "live" with it.  ...and so it goes. FROM BR IN COLORADO:  After I pour my first cup of coffee in the morning I open your message. It always makes me smile and think. Thank you.===JACK:  It makes me smile, also, as I think of you and the others who read Winning Words.  It would be so interesting to continue conversing about the subject.  In a way, the blog does that...but not completely.