Everyday what one learns combines into knowledge and we then see things differently— what we’ve done, what we’re doing, what we’ll do. Ideas form. Questions arise. Moods swing. Judgments weigh. Products form. Life moves on. We grow older and become independent. Women come and go. Our private surroundings change and home appears to represent more of who we are inside— it can be seen in where things are placed, the colors, the quantities of things, what gets done… Our friends change and begin to more closely reflect the numerous qualities we have within us. We also become more like our parents now. Time begins to fly, carrying us through the calendar like someone else’s plan and we can find ourselves overwhelmed with what we feel must be accomplished, or what we have not yet accomplished. We can learn something from everybody. Some people have great difficulty in being alone— in not distracting themselves with ways to just make time fly faster. I want to make time fly slower. I want to get inside of every moment and create memories before their events have even really happened. There is always something new to absorb—something to work on— and every day becomes a gift to realize love in life, for life, for the sake of learning who we are more deeply, affecting those around us, making them do the same, to then look at themselves more closely on the inside as we walk across this earth most of the time as strangers to one another seeing the surface of our human images create barriers which should not be there. We have become divided millions of times over. People are struggling for their lives. Some are simply so unfortunate because it all began for them in the family— the root of most issues in relations. December 25, 2004 ... The Modern Man has not only forgotten how to be alone; he finds it difficult even to be with his fellow man. He not only runs away from himself; he runs away from his family. The heart of the Ten Commandments is to be found in the words: Revere thy father and thy mother. Without profound reverence for father and mother, our ability to observe the other commandments is dangerously impaired. [Abraham Joshua Heschel]