Several short thoughts:

·         If you put out another's candle, you also will
be in the dark.
--German Proverb

·          Half the world is composed of people who have
something to say and can't and the other half
who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
--Robert Frost

·         The greatest good you can do for another is not just
to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
--Benjamin Disraeli

Kids Author and Lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."

(Yesterday my dad, Stanley Zirbel, died. In failing health for the past 18 years, he had told my mom earlier this year he wanted to celebrate his 85th birthday, which he did on May 17; and their 60th anniversary, which we did on Saturday, July 12 - the real date was Sunday, the 13th. He must have figured his list was complete!)