What puts the smile on your face? And what smiles make you smile back so wide that you almost laugh with joy? And what do you think causes those smiles in others? Listen to their sparkling answers which were gifts to me I now pass on to you. May their responses spread smiles across your faces. A few samples: *Brittany: "My husband kissing me for no reason ." *Sada: "Smiling makes me feel good. It makes others feel good. Why not smile to the world and the world will smile back." *Misty: "It's a mantra I put in my head. I've always been happy, but you sometimes have to fake it before it becomes...

Watch the wide-eyed wonder as you read this book to your children When they are a little older, they will probably read the whole book themselves. The stories are that good--exciting, imaginative, mind-expanding, personality forming and value building for the children. Best, you as an adult will enjoy them also

Who can catch love--joyful, painful, starful, burning, flowerful, mystical ineffable word Yet here are some that sing with many voices.

CAUTION You are entering a world of chaos, seemingly smoothed by cosmos and culture. It is a world where time dominates and twists reality, where a tenth of a second leads to all the seconds which make the difference. It is your world. Your small link in time joins to all other times determining who lives and who dies. Fate? Choice? God? Chance? Does the past determine? Can your future change? A brilliant biologist in one car and a twisted pervert who has trapped a young mother in the other car, both hurtle into the intersection. The on-coming collision raises the deep questions of life, or...

Gentian blue eyes, silk cheeks...a coming of age of a spoiled city girl who loses her parents and who is taken to the mountains by her weathered old grandmother. That old mountain magic flowered in her young breast, glowed in her wondering mind, and stretched rock strong down the bones of those swelling young legs. A generational transformation and healing takes place between them, nourished and rinsed by the beauty of the mountains.

Lightning strikes and flowers fall See the world from a new view. Listen to the poetry and paradox in the frailty and courage of humanity. Your Mother's Mother arched like a silver fish above the water and struck the calm lake and rippled you. Now in your freedom you have stepped from the waters, taken your genes into your own hands and hurled missiles at the stars. Yet you stand not alone. The wind washes your hair and the waters rinse your feet. The sparkle on the snow, the silver of the rain, and the gold of the grain become the love shining in your eyes and the blood beating n your...

Creation Mystery Newness Pathetic poets moan about the pain of birthing poems. I'm guilty. But hopefully some of these stretch your mind into the universal human wide-eyed stargazing wondering.

Our parents sped along the road of our advancing civilization, ignorant of the broken bridge ahead. They fled the golden glow of farmutopia, entered the silver shadow of Pandora's Shop, gave birth to us among mechanical and electrical toys--and now we wander in this great white out, a blindness which we are passing onto our children who are our green hope. History will not absolve us unless we change. While chronologically clear and analogically appealing, don't let the style fool you--I promise a raucous, ironic, sardonic, sarcastic, rollicking ride with flashbacks and fast-forwards that...