What's Been Important In My Understanding Of

Silence Is So Powerful, So Important. There Is So Much To Be Learned From It.

I Wonder What Memories Of Yours Will Persist As You Go On In Life. My Hunch Is That The Most Important Will Have To Do With Feelings Of Loving And Being Loved - Friends, Family, Teachers, Shopkeepers - Whoever's Been Close To You. As You Continue To Grow, You'll Find Many Ways Of Expressing Your Love And You'll Discover More And More Ways In Which Others Express Their Love For You.

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.

Play Is Often Talked About As If It Were A Relief From Serious Learning. But For Children Play Is Serious Learning. Play Is Really The Work Of Childhood.