Growth Demands A Temporary Surrender Of Security.

The Work Of Adult Life Is Not Easy. As In Childhood, Each Step Presents Not Only New Tasks Of Development But Requires A Letting Go Of The Techniques That Worked Before. With Each Passage Some Magic Must Be Given Up, Some Cherished Illusion Of Safety And Comfortably Familiar Sense Of Self Must Be Cast Off, To Allow For The Greater Expansion Of Our Distinctiveness.

As We Reach Midlife In The Middle Thirties Or Early Forties, We Are Not Prepared For The Idea That Time Can Run Out On Us, Or For The Startling Truth That If We Don't Hurry To Pursue Our Own Definition Of A Meaningful Existence, Life Can Become A Repetition Of Trivial Maintenance Duties.

Children May Need Challenges And High-risk Conditions In Order To Develop The Self-generated Immunity To Trauma That Characterizes Survivors. To Be Tested Is Good. The Challenged Life May Be The Best Therapist.

The One Thing Prostitution Is Not Is A 'victimless Crime.' It Attracts A Wide Species Of Preying Criminals And Generates A Long Line Of Victims, Beginning With The Most Obvious And Least Understood - The Prostitute Herself.

This Is A Woman [hillary Clinton] Who For Many Of Her 52 Years Never Cared A Fig About Her Appearance, But In The Chrysalis Of Transformation From Political Wife To Independent Woman, The Jawline Has Been Chiseled, The Dominatrix Eyebrows Weeded, The Weight Dropped, And The Result Is A Woman Who Obviously Enjoys For The First Time Being Called Beautiful.