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We All Know How To Be A Child. It's Inside All Of Us. For Me, It's Just Remembering How To Enjoy It.
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We All Know How To Be A Child. It's Inside All Of Us. For Me, It's Just Remembering How To Enjoy It.

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Important
Elements
This Is The Greatest Gift God Can Give You: To Understand What Happened In Your Life. To Have It Explained. It Is The Peace You Have Been Searching For.
Life
Giving
Happened
Lost Love Is Still Love. It Takes A Different Form, That's All.
Lost Love
Love Is
Different
When You Are Measuring Life, You Are Not Living It.
Measuring
When You Are An Outcast, Even A Tossed Stone Can Be Cherished.
Stones
Outcast
Do Not Worry About Tomorrow, For Tomorrow Will Worry About Itself.
Bible
Jesus
Future
That's What Heaven Is. You Get To Make Sense Of Your Yesterdays
Yesterday
Heaven
Make Sense
Kids Chase The Love That Eludes Them, And For Me, That Was My Father's Love. He Kept It Tucked Away, Like Papers In A Briefcase. And I Kept Trying To Get In There.
Father
Kids
Trying
I Find Interesting Characters Or Lessons That Resonate With People And Sometimes I Write About Them In The Sports Pages, Sometimes I Write Them In A Column, Sometimes In A Novel, Sometimes A Play Or Sometimes In Nonfiction. But At The Core I Always Say To Myself, 'is There A Story Here? Is This Something People Want To Read?'
Sports
Writing
Character
I Always Look For A "rhythm" In My Writing. A Cadence To The Sentences. Sometimes I Think Of Pieces I Write In A Song Writing Infrastructure - I.e., A Verse, A Chorus That I Return To, A Bridge That's Something Differenct, A Chorus That I Return To.
Song
Writing
Thinking
There's A Story Behind Everything..but Behind All Your Stories Is Always Your Mother's Story..because Hers Is Where Yours Begins.
Mothers Day
Mom
Stories
You're Not Going To Fix Things By Helping 65-year-olds Or 75-year-olds For Any Long Run.
Running
Years
Long
Money Is Not A Substitute For Tenderness, And Power Is Not A Substitute For Tenderness.
Substitutes
Tenderness
Comradeship
Sacrifice Is A Part Of Life. It’s Supposed To Be. It’s Not Something To Regret. It’s Something To Aspire To. Little Sacrifices. Big Sacrifices. A Mother Works So Her Son Can Go To School. A Daughter Moves Home To Take Care Of Her Sick Father.
Daughter
Mother
Regret
Giving To Other People Makes Me Feel Alive. Not My Car Or My House. Not What I Look Like In The Mirror. When I Give My Time, When I Can Make Someone Smile After They Were Feeling Sad.
Mirrors
People
Giving
Man Alone Measures Time. Man Alone Chimes The Hour. And, Because Of This, Man Alone Suffers A Paralysing Fear That No Other Creature Endures. A Fear Of Time Running Out.
Running
Men
Suffering
With Endless Time, Nothing Is Special. With No Loss Or Sacrifice, We Can’t Appreciate What We Have
Loss
Sacrifice
Endless Time
What She Mostly Wanted, He Learned, Was The Same Thing Many People Want--someone To Notice She Was There.
People
Want
Wanted
In Business People Negotiate To Win. They Negotiate To Get What They Want. Love Is Different. Love Is When You Are As Concerned About Someone Else's Situation As You Are About Your Own.
Winning
Love Is
People
Dor Shook His Head. “the Phrase. What Does It Mean?” Sarah Wondered If He Was Kidding. “time Flies? You Know, Like, Time Goes Really Fast And Suddenly You’re Saying Goodbye And It’s Like No Time Passed At All?” His Eyes Drifted. He Liked It. “time Flies.” “with You,” She Added.
Goodbye
Mean
Eye
My Father Moved Through Theys Of We, Singing Each New Leaf Out Of Each Tree, (and Every Child Was Sure That Spring Danced When She Heard My Father Sing).
Children
Spring
Father
God Sings, We Hum Along, And There Are Many Melodies, But It's All One Song - One Same, Wonderful, Human Song.
Song
Wonderful
Melody
When Hope Is Gone, Time Is Punishment.
Punishment
Gone
Gone Time
He Never Spoke Of That Night Again, Not To Your Mother, Not To Anyone Else. He Was Ashamed For Her, For Mickey, For Himself. In The Hospital, He Stopped Speaking Altogether. Silence Was His Escape, But Silence Is Rarely A Refuge. His Thoughts Still Haunted Him.' ~pg 139
Mother
Night
Silence
I Believe He Died This Way On Purpose. I Believe He Wanted No Chilling Moments, No One To Witness His Last Breath And Be Haunted By It, The Way He Had Been Haunted By His Mother's Death-notice Telegram Or By His Father's Corpse In The City Morgue.
Mother
Father
Believe
Had He Known His Death Was Imminent, He Might Have Gone Somewhere Else. Instead, He Did What We All Do. He Went About His Dull Routine As If All The Days In The World Were Still To Come. ~pg 4
Somewhere Else
Routine
Gone
It's Nice That You Spend A Day With Your Mother,' She Said. "children Should Do It More Often.
Mother
Children
Nice
I Would Lying If I Said I Would Laugh In The Face Of Death.
Lying
Laughing
Faces
Once We Began To Chime The Hour, We Lost The Ability To Be Satisfied
Hours
Lost
Chimes
Time," The Captain Said, "is Not What You Think." He Sat Down Next To Eddie. "dying? Not The End Of Everything. We Think It Is. But What Happens On Earth Is Only The Beginning.
Thinking
Dying
Earth
No Matter How Smart She Appeared, She Was Fragile At Her Core.
Smart
Matter
Fragile
I Asked Myself, 'am I Going To Withdraw From The World, Like Most People Do, Or Am I Going To Live?' I Decided I Am Going To Live - Or At Least Try To Live - The Way I Want, With Dignity, With Courage, With Humor, With Composure.
People
Trying
World
Don't Get Too Attached To Anything.
Perdonare "forgive Yourself)
Forgiving
Forgive Yourself
I Don't Use Any Fance Quill Pens Or Pads, Because I Can't Read My Own Handwriting. I Just Use Whatever Computer Is Laying Around, And Start Writing.
Writing
Use
Pads
Mothers Support Certain Illusions About Their Children, And One Of My Illusions Was That I Liked Who I Was, Because She Did. When She Passed Away, So Did That Idea.
Mother
Children
Ideas
No Story Sits By Itself, Sometimes Stories Meet At Corners And Sometimes They Cover One Another Completely, Like Stones Beneath A River.
Rivers
Stories
Stones
The Second Death. To Think That You Died And No One Would Remember You. I Wondered If This Was Why We Tried So Hard To Make Our Mark In America. To Be Known. Think Of How Important Celebrity Has Become. We Sing To Get Famous; Expose Our Worst Secrets To Get Famous; Lose Weight, Eat Bugs, Even Commit Murder To Get Famous. Our Young People Post Their Deepest Thoughts On Public Web Sites. They Run Cameras From Their Bedrooms. It’s As If We Are Screaming Notice Me! Remember Me! Yet The Notoriety Barely Lasts. Names Quickly Blur And In Time Are Forgotten.
Faith
Running
Thinking
The News Of Life Is Carried Via Telephone. A Baby's Birth, A Couple Engaged, A Tragic Car Accident On A Late Night Highway - Most Milestones Of The Human Journey, Good Or Bad, Are Foreshadowed By The Sound Of A Ringing.
Baby
Couple
Night
Accept Who You Are; And Revel In It.
Confidence
Wisdom
Self Love
The Manager Once Called Me The 'best Freak' In His Stable, And, Sad As It Sounds, I Took Pride In That. When You Are An Outcast, Even A Tossed Stone Can Be Cherished.
Pride
Sound
Stones
People Say They 'find' Love, As If It Were An Object Hidden By A Rock. But Love Takes Many Forms, And It Is Never The Same For Any Man And Woman. What People Find Then Is A Certain Love. And [he] Found A Certain Love With [her], A Grateful Love, A Deep But Quiet Love, One That He Knew, Above All Else, Was Irreplaceable.
Grateful
Men
Rocks
Most Of Us All Walk Around As If We're Sleepwalking. We Really Don't Experience The World Fully, Because We're Half-asleep, Doing Things We Automatically Think We Have To Do.
Thinking
Half
World
Timing Is Everything. That´s Right. Which Is Why Our Sages Tell Us To Repent Exactly One Day Before We Die." But How Do You Know It´s The Day Before You Die? I Asked. He Raised His Eyebrows. "exactly
Eyebrows
One Day
Sage
Anyone Who Tries To Write A Memoir Needs To Keep In Mind That What's Interesting To You Isn't Necessarily Interesting To A Reader.
Writing
Interesting
Mind
You Can't Substitute Material Things For Love Or For Gentleness Or For Tenderness Or For A Sense Of Comradeship
Inspirational
Life
Substitutes
I Used To Be A Classic Workaholic, And After Seeing How Little Work And Career Really Mean When You Reach The End Of Your Life, I Put A New Emphasis On Things I Believe Count More. These Things Include: Family, Friends, Being Part Of A Community, And Appreciating The Little Joys Of The Average Day.
Believe
Mean
Average
Learn What You Do Not Know. Understand The Consequences Of Counting The Moments.
Moments
Counting
Knows
Life Is A Series Of Pulls Back And Forth. You Want To Do One Thing, But You Are Bound To Do Somehing Else. Something Hurts You, Yet You Know It Shouldn't. You Take Certain Things For Granted, Even When You Know You Should Never Take Anything For Granted.
Hurt
Want
Life Is
The Dead Sit At Our Tables Long After They Have Gone.
Long
Tables
Gone
We Need To Forgive Ourselves. For All The Things We Didn't Do. All The Things We Should Have Done. You Can't Get Stuck On The Regrets Of What Should Have Happened.
Regret
Should Have
Forgiving
I Never Hear Anything About Education. Education - I Guess It's Just Not Sexy Enough. And Everybody Claims To Love Their Children And Our Children Are The Most Important Thing, But If That's The Case, How Come We Never Hear More About Education As An Election Issue?
Sexy
Children
Issues
Tension Of Opposites.
Opposites
Tension
The Truth Is, There Is No Line. There's Only Your Life, How You Mess It Up, And Who Is There To Save You. Or Who Isn't.
Lines
Truth Is
Mess
But My Father, A Thief In Many Ways, Had Robbed Me Of My Concentration.
Father
Thieves
Way
Because One Thing God Gave Us- And I'm Afraid It's At Times A Little Too Much- Is Freewill. Freedom To Choose. I Believe He Gave Us Everything Needed To Build A Beautiful World, If We Choose Wisely.
Beautiful
Believe
World
Everyone Knows They Re Going To Die,' He Said Again, 'but Nobody Believes It. If We Did, We Would Do Things Differently.
Believe
Said
Knows
For As Spiritual As Some People Think My Books Are, I've Never Really Dealt With Religious Things.
Spiritual
Religious
Book
Don't Cling To Things, Because Everything Is Impermanent... But Detachment Doesn't Mean You Don't Let The Experience Penetrate You. On The Contrary, You Let It Penetrate You Fully. That's How You Are Able To Leave It...you're Afraid Of The Pain, You're Afraid Of The Grief... But By Throwing Yourself Into These Emotions, By Allowing Yourself To Dive In, All The Way, Over Your Head Even, You Experience Them Fully And Completely.you Know What Pain Is. You Know What Love Is. "all Right. I Have Experienced That Emotion. I Recognize That Emotion. Now I Need To Detach From That Emotion For A Moment.
Pain
Grief
Mean
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