The Tao of Laughter

• I was just revisiting a book (that I had started and not finished a few months ago), "The Parents Tao Te Ching".  In the forward, Dan Millman (author of The Way of the Peaceful Warrior) makes an impactful statement about the power and responsibility of being a parent:

Few things in this world are as important as raising children.  In every age, every era, every time and place, children are our treasures, our future, our immortality -- the vital link in the chain of humanity.  What better form of service?  What better charity to whom we might give of our wealth, our hands, and our hearts?  Children remind us of who we were and who we may yet become.  They are our innocence, our purity, our potential. 

• Somebody's ticklish (who needs elmo?):