“Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.”

Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.

The personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,

I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.

From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.

Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories

We put him in touch with his inner reality.

From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.

And sometimes, from their envy of each other’s special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.

Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.

No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.

From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise.

The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man – not a color.

It’s easy to actually get the ink on the page

I like to go in the opposite direction and do a short film, or something else.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses…

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

The country [Syria] would be destroyed. Unfortunately, our warnings are coming true.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

She’s the one that is always there, the one that carried you inside and gave you life.