The author has a compelling idea: make the world better, no grand gestures required, rather open your heart and let it open the next heart and let that open one more. Us 70 year olds have been around for a while and likely, even stumbling into the seventh decade, have learned a thing or two, if only from the almost infinite mistakes we have made along the way. With fresh eyes, the author shares with us his experience finding his own way to open his heart wholly without waiver off his most personal of paths. No dogma, no religion, no gurus, needed to open our hearts and minds. He has found in the intimate experiences of his life a way forward to being a better person and living a fuller existence. He warns it's not easy. It takes working with one's own situation. But it is eminently possible He has found and collected for us tips and guidelines, suggestions and explanations, set forth with clarity for us to follow. A small town mainstreet local diner sitting around the table with old friends path beguiling in its simplicity- vast it in comprehension.