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[Music] when was the last time you wrote a letter not a text or tweet where direct messages was with an emoji not even a carefully crafted email but an actual honest-to-god letter one that you set down with pen and paper and as the words flowed you told someone you love them or that you missed them or that you were sorry if you're like a lot of people perhaps it's been a while but I'm here to tell you that needs to change because I believe that the simple act of handwriting a letter can fundamentally change who you are as a person can impact the recipient in immeasurable ways and if done often enough can change who we are as a society now you may be asking yourself how could the simple act of writing a letter do such a thing and I have to say I don't blame you you see I did not understand its impact either that is until October the 7th 1997 that's the day my father Robert Gray Davis passed away after years of illness that included a kidney transplant and the amputation of an arm and a leg to diabetes he simply fell asleep and did not wake up I still remember the shrieking phone call I got from my mother as my father lay motionless beside her it was and still is the worst day of my life but from that pain was born a legacy you see my father had a mission and that mission was simple he wanted to write letters letters to the people places and things in his life that mattered so with the one hand he had left he wrote 26 letters 26 letters from the heart but it wasn't just the simple act of a writing that meant so much it was the deep impact those letters had on their recipients and in turn the cathartic experience my father felt in writing them three days after I got that phone call from my mother I stood in a cemetery with my brothers and I handed out some of those letters to their intended recipients I still remember the look of peace and the look of love as they opened the envelope read the words and then saw my father's name I want you to think for a moment about someone in your life someone who's influenced you perhaps touched you maybe it was a family member or friend a coach or a colleague maybe even a complete stranger who performed an uncommon act of kindness think of that person hold their image in your mind imagine what it was about them that changed you now imagine putting those thoughts on paper or better yet imagine this it's a Friday afternoon it's been a long week maybe maybe even a lonely week and that person walks to the mailbox and among the junk mail and the bills they see an envelope and on the upper...