The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.

The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.