"Make your plate look like a Christmas tree," I tell people, "mostly green with splashes of other bright colors."

We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a garden or on a tree and never saw a deep fryer. They are capable of making it through diner at a sit-down restaurant with tablecloths and no climbing equipment. Children deserve quality nourishment.

It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are.

Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet.

The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.

Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.