Archive for November, 2008
What greeting is appropriate for a 16 year old girl on her birthday?
Recently we were invited to the birthday party of a one-year old girl, whose parents requested that in lieu of gifts we write a letter to her that will be opened on her sixteenth birthday. This is what we wrote:
Dear….
Congratulations!!! We are so happy you are now 16, gorgeous, sweet 16. We hope you [...]
How to console someone after a death in the family?
My friend Amy writes after the death of her relatively young brother in law, “I still thought that this was just a dream. Somehow deep inside I prayed that it was a dream. But it wasn’t. When I looked at his face, I realized that everything wasn’t a dream. I’m so sad. It’s the second [...]
Buddha, child, and butterfly
One day a child goes to his mother and asks her, “Ma, who is that old man sitting on the mountain? ”
Mother answers, “Don’t call him an old man, for he is Lord Buddha, who knows the answer to every question in this universe.”
“Really, he knows answers to all questions?” asks the child. [...]