When I was 19-years-old, I read The Measure of Our Success by Marian Wright Edelman on my cross-country drive to start my freshman year of college. It was required reading for my dorm. Mrs. Edelman‘s words took me to new places of understanding and heart opening. It is a fantastic letter to her sons on their 18th birthday about how to be thoughtful, kind, respectable humans and American citizens. I read it again this week and even though it was written in 1992, I was so moved by its immediacy and how many of those principles in that book guided my way through early adulthood.