Humility
Laughter is a regular fare for our wee ones, who delight in simple things like ants scurrying to and fro, or the falling leaf on their dogs back. While adults are busy "making ends meet" and do not take time to "smell the roses." Teens on the other hand will laugh at literally anything. So that others may be first, we may consider following, rather than leading others toward founding.
Humility, does come easy for the young, but all parents would agree that teens are not humble in the least, because as we learn "parents know nothing." We can conclude that adults become humble in our later years when we finally realize that there is much we do not know, because of our wasted youth and misdirected early adult years.
Forward
In support of both reading and engaging in fantasy, we firmly believe that if imagination is kindled with passion when left to our own devices, and if directed toward a positive good, this will benefit not only the "dreamer", but mankind as well. Regular reading of both factual and fantasy books from the day of a child's birth engage both the adult and child in pleasure and provide the opportunity for erstwhile discussions. Books, when read on a regular and continuing basis are the greatest single influence on mankind, with no exceptions.
Adults and children do not often laugh at the same things, because each is for that moment in time, unable to be as the other. Our family kept a diary during a ten year period in which five family members were in nursing homes. Feeling quite depressed, an article in our local newspaper provided some relief. We kept diary entries of funny or happy moments which happened each day for a year. Reviewing some of these entries still brings laughter, like the time my wife's mother was tapping on a plate glass window with a large ash tray. We asked her to stop for fear that the glass would break, and with a sudden thrust the ash tray caught me in the head. Awaking several minutes later the levity of the moment was cause for a diary entry later that day. Our ability to laugh at any situation gives us a dose of reality tempered with humor.
Knowledge once lost can never be regained. My father made a comment several weeks before he suffered a severe heart attach and slipped into a coma. Dad said, "son if you do not take the time to sit at the feet of someone who has talents and knowledge you do not possess, then they will be lost forever." To this day our thoughts turn to that moment and cause wonderment as to what knowledge and talents are lost forever, not to be passed onto my children, their children, and human kind.
This section of our web site preserves the talents and knowledge of those who have guided us in our short life on mother earth, acknowledging their contributions for this generation and perhaps future ones as well, and causes us to be in awe and adoration for the many talented and compassionate people who have enriched our lives through our internet and www experiences.
