How to Uplift Your Audience Mood in Troubling Times?

Hello friend,

It was mid-’70s in the fall. I was in my early teens.

I was walking back home from the local market, feeling down.

The darkness and chill that fell on my neighborhood didn’t help.

My head was having a “storyteller fest” of all the things in my life I felt didn’t work out my way.

From demanding schoolwork, annoying friends, and that in general n…