Book excerpt: The essays by journalist Frank Miele in this collection span from 2003 to 2018. "What Matters Most" is Volume 6 of the Heartland Diary USA series. Most of these essays originally appeared in the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Montana, where Miele worked for 34 years, including 18 years as managing editor. Miele gained a wide following for his weekly conservative "Editor's 2 Cents" commentaries, which are now collected in the Heartland Diary series. The author, who is now a columnist for Real Clear Politics, is best known for his conservative commentary. but some of his best loved columns were written about the people he has known and loved. This collection includes many of those columns from his 18 years as managing editor of the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Montana, plus others written to celebrate the great country we live in, the faith of our fathers and the spirit of kindness that characterizes all true Christians and all true Americans. A very few of the columns in this collection may touch upon political themes, but for the most part the book will appeal to those on the right and the left, and teach us how much we have in common at a time when the elites want to rip us apart.