to my children

I do not wish for you a life of ease… but the struggle that leads to meaningful art. I hope you have the chance to explore the depths of your own love, and fully enjoy the unconditional love of others. To find peace through strength, and resilience and patient persistence thru the tests of failure. I wish for you friends and companions who serve as a mirror to your greatest strengths, and support for your deepest struggles. I do not hope that you accomplish much, but that you become much accomplished in serving the world with the truest, purest expression of the caring person you were always destined to become. Perfection is too low a standard for anyone… overcome perfection by fully embracing grace: the knowledge that you are good! You are truly good! Do not fear failure, my child – rest in the knowledge that nothing is wasted, and stand up again after every fall. Create expressions of the truth that has set you free. I love you, always, and no matter what. – Papa