22 Wednesday, April 17, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Sharing joy with the world, orld, one “Bot” at a time By Helen Schmidling Correspondent “Imagine if you could go through your entire day followed by a giant invisible robot that protects you, defends you, and gives you outrageous compliments.” – Gary Hirsch When Gary Hirsch was a little boy, he suffered from horrible, monster-infested nightmares 3 dreams so vivid they sent him knocking on his parents9 bedroom door for comfort. The monsters, he said, threatened to take him away. His father, a gentle man, took young Gary to the kitchen, made him some cin- namon toast, handed Gary some paper and pencils and asked him to draw his mon- sters. Then, together, they named the monsters. Gary9s dad then explained that he could just as easily get rid of the monsters, simply by turn- ing the pencil over and erasing them.