Love Is Like Infinity: You Can't Have

One Way To Think About Play, Is As The Process Of Finding New Combinations For Known Things--combinations That May Yield New Formsof Expression, New Inventions, New Discoveries, And New Solutions....it's Exactly What Children's Play Seems To Be About And Explains Why So Many People Have Come To Think That Children's Play Is So Important A Part Of Childhood--and Beyond.

I Don't Believe That Children Can Develop In A Healthy Way Unless They Feel That They Have Value Apart From Anything They Own Or Any Skill That They Learn. They Need To Feel They Enhance The Life Of Someone Else, That They Are Needed. Who, Better Than Parents, Can Let Them Know That?

More And More I've Come To Understand That Listening Is One Of The Most Important Things We Can Do For One Another. Whether The Other Be An Adult Or A Child, Our Engagement In Listening To Who That Person Is Can Often Be Our Greatest Gift. Whether That Person Is Speaking Or Playing Or Dancing, Building Or Singing Or Painting, If We Care, We Can Listen.

It's Not The Honors And The Prizes And The Fancy Outsides Of Life Which Ultimately Nourish Our Souls. It's The Knowing That We Can Be Trusted, That We Never Have To Fear The Truth, That The Bedrock Of Our Very Being Is Good Stuff.

It's Very Dramatic When Two People Come Together To Work Something Out. It's Easy To Take A Gun And Annihilate Your Opposition, But What Is Really Exciting To Me Is To See People With Differing Views Come Together And Finally Respect Each Other.