Opinion

The recent decision by the Seaman Unified School District 345 school board to distance itself from its namesake, Fred A. Seaman, a known leader in the Ku Klux Klan, seems halfhearted at best.

What is gratitude? Is it an attitude, a feeling or an expression? How do you best describe gratitude and its effect in your life? Broken down to a very simple level, gratitude is really about a three-step process of noticing what is happening in our daily lives, focusing on the good things and appreciating our lives. It is important every day to notice even the small things that we experience (like sunshine, a drink of water) that we may have been taking for granted.

When I was a law professor at Syracuse University, I became quite good friends with a professor in a different department. He had escaped as a child from Nazi Germany and found his way to Israel, married, had a family and eventually moved to the United States where he was soon employed.