"at a conference in 2013 at johns hopkins university, vice provost, jonathan bagger, pointed out that only six miles separate the baltimore neighborhoods of rowland park and hollins market, but there is a 20-year conference in the average life expectancy." we have learned, in the last few years, that life expectancy, which is a measure of the quality of life in communities and countries, manifests the same inequality that we see in so many other parts of our society. women, white women without high school education, are losing life expectancy. black men and black women are seeing their life expectancy goes down in so many parts of our country. this may not grab headlines although i was glad to see it on the front page of "u.s.a. today," but it tells us more than i think we can bear about what we are up against. we need to start understanding how important it is to care for every single child as though that child were our own. david and i started our conversation this morning talking about our grandchildren. now, his are considerably older than mine. but it was not just two long-time f