IDEA FROM MY 'PROGRESSIVE PROHIBITIONIST RELIGION': WRITE TO THE TOURISM OFFICE FOR THE CITY WHERE YOU WERE BORN, AND OBTAIN A BROCHURE ABOUT LEADING TOURIST ATTRACTIONS THERE

I was reminded this month that I want my quality-of-life-minded Progressive Prohibitionist Religion to encourage Americans to write to the tourism office of the city where they were born.

In that letter, Americans could simply ask for any tourism brochures about that city that the tourism office there is willing to mail to them.

Americans could then study the brochures they receive from that tourism office, and thereby enhance their own appreciation for the cultural vitality that their city of birth offers.

Americans who regard their city of birth as a culturally rich or interesting or benevolent city will benefit throughout their lives from enhanced self-esteem and a sense of being connected to something sublime ever since their birth.

This will occur for those Americans because the place where they were born exerts a pervasive influence on their own self-identity as a human being. Throughout their life, they are frequently being asked to cite the city where they were born--and the more they can recall about that particular city of birth in the way of interesting or impressive information about that city or town, the better those Americans will also feel about themselves as human beings.

Embrace the city where you were born, and you boost your own sense of personal vitality and confidence in the process.

Lincoln, Nebraska, for me, will always be the city where I was born that I want to savor. I know it offers a national roller-skating museum, and also a museum honoring the life of William Jennings Bryan that is situated on the campus of the University of Nebraska.

I will always savor the wonderful story my benevolent father, Dr. Calvin McMillan, told me about the University of Nebraska during my youth inside our family home in Westlake Hills, Texas. Father told me that when he was employed as an assistant Professor of Botany at University of Nebraska in the 1950s, Father greatly admired the public statement made by the President of the University of Nebraska that partly because of the humiliating defeats their school had suffered from facing the University of Oklahoma Sooners squads of Coach Bud Wilkinson in varsity football games, it would be better if varsity football were completely eliminated from the offerings of University of Nebraska, that university president famously declared in the 1950s.

According to Father, that University of Nebraska President publicly advocated construction of numerous tennis courts and an alternative emphasis by his school on the healthful lifelong-sport of tennis as the athletic endeavor being championed by and at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

As a tennis lover myself, I find it exhilarating and sublimely inspirational to recall that famous story from Father about a great public statement from a University of Nebraska President of the 1950s.