On Children

“Your children are not your children.


They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.


They come through you but not from you,


And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,


For they have their own thoughts.


You may house their bodies but not their souls,


For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, 
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.


You may strive to be like them, 
but seek not to make them like you.


For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
 as living arrows are sent forth.


The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, 


and He bends you with His might 
that His arrows may go swift and far.


Let our bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;


For even as He loves the arrow that flies, 


so He loves also the bow that is stable.”

“I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions, I was entrusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan

Consider them the Robin Hoods of graffiti. When vandals create value:

From Mary Ann Crossno.

God grant me
The serenity to accept the people I cannot change
The courage to change the one I can
And the wisdom to know
That one is me