Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.

Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!

Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out.

I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.