The Real Drama Of Life Is Never

Hopefully Your Choices Can Come From A Deep Sense Of Who You Are.

The Roots Of A Child's Ability To Cope And Thrive, Regardless Of Circumstance, Lie In That Child's Having Had At Least A Small, Safe Place (an Apartment? A Room? A Lap?) In Which, In The Companionship Of A Loving Person, That Child Could Discover That He Or She Was Lovable And Capable Of Loving In Return. If A Child Finds This During The First Years Of Life, He Or She Can Grow Up To Be A Competent, Healthy Person.

I Recently Learned That In An Average Lifetime A Person Walks About Sixty-five Thousand Miles. That's Two And A Half Times Around The World. I Wonder Where Your Steps Will Take You. I Wonder How You'll Use The Rest Of The Miles You're Given.

We Live In A World In Which We Need To Share Responsibility. It's Easy To Say "it's Not My Child, Not My Community, Not My World, Not My Problem." Then There Are Those Who See The Need And Respond. I Consider Those People My Heroes.

I Wonder If We Might Pledge Ourselves To Remember What Life Is Really All About—not To Be Afraid That We're Less Flashy Than The Next, Not To Worry That Our Influence Is Not That Of A Tornado, But Rather That Of A Grain Of Sand In An Oyster! Do We Have That Kind Of Patience?