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• One
• One3
• One4
• One5
• One6
• One Is Perfection, yet Far from Perfected
• Two
• Two2
• Two3
• Two4
• Three
• Three2
• Three3
• Three4
• Three5
• ___ Is Three
• Four
• Four2
• I Am Four
• I Am Four2
• You're Four
• Five
• Five2
• Five3
• You Are Five
• Six
• Six2
• Seven
• Eight
• Eight2
• Eight Years Old! A Happy Time
• You're Eight
• Nine
• Nine2
• Nine-Year-Olds Have Dreams That Dance and Sing
• Ten
• Ten2
• Eleven
• Eleven Embraces Each Breathtaking Day
• Eleven Is the Very Best Age to Be
• Twelve
• There Is Much Pleasure in the Love of Learning (12)
• Time for Parents Tends to Go Too Fast (12)
• Thirteen
• Thirteen2
• To Be Thirteen Is to Be, Well, a Teen
• Facts Are Less Reliable than Dreams (14)
• Fashion for Yourself a Perfect Mirror (14)
• Fifteen's Neither Child nor Adult
• Fie on These Earthlings (15)
• For You Life Ought to Be a Silver Dancer (15)
• For You There'll Always Be the Gift of Beauty (15)
• Sixteen
• Sing of Dreams, Those Blueprints of the Future (16)
• So Far Away, yet We Are Near (16)
• Sweet Sixteens Are Harbingers of Grace
• Seventeen
• Seventeen2
• Seventeen3
• Society Is You and Me (17)
• Eighteen
• Eighteen2
• Eighteen3
• Nineteen Is a Moment for Reflection
• Need Is Not the Mother of Invention (19)
• No More Favors, Please! (19)
• Twenty
• Twenty2
• Twenty Is a Bud That's Finally Flowered
• Twenty-One
• Twenty-One2
• Time Diminishes What We Require (21)
• To Know Another, One Must Be Insane (21)
• Tough and Lovely (21)
• Twenty-Two
• Twenty-Two2
• Twenty-Two Worries About Earth
• Tell Me More, My Love, How Much You Love Me (22)
• The Face Is a Mask over a Mirror (22)
• Tonight There Are No Stars (22)
• Twenty-Three
• Truth Is Just the Opposite of Sense (23)
• Twenty-Four
• The Center Stage Is Empty (24)
• The Chance of Happiness Equals the Risk of Pain (24)
• The Sun Was Salmon on Water (24)
• The World's a Notebook Full of Scenes and Stories (24)
• Today's an Ocean Which You Sail Forever (24)
• Twenty-Five Has Come into Her Own
• Twenty-Five Remembers When the World
• The Former Lord of Jersey Stitches Pants (25)
• The Los Angeles of 1958 (25)
• The Point of Life Is that There Is No Point (25)
• There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown (25)
• There's Beauty in the Barest Breath of Sunshine (25)
• To Daydream Is to Stir the Pot of Hope (25)
• Twenty-Six3
• Twenty-Six4
• There Are Walls Beyond Satisfaction (26)
• Twenty-Six Is Undeterred by Being
• Twenty-Six Reserves the Right to Change
• Twenty-Seven
• Twenty-Seven2
• Twenty-Seven3
• Twenty-Seven4
• The Story Says: Steal the Magic Jewels (27)
• The Thought Electric Wings Across the Shallows (27)
• There Is No Better Time of Life than Now (27)
• To Be Happy, One Must Know the Rules (27)
• To Be in Full Bloom Is Not Always Easy (27)
• Twenty-Eight2
• Twenty-Eight3
• Twenty-Eight4
• Twenty-Eight5
• Twenty-Eight6
• Twenty-Eight's a Rose in Perfect Bloom
• The Child Was Merely Accidental (28)
• Time Has a Way of Making Life Precious (28)
• Twenty-Nine
• Twenty-Nine2
• Twenty-Nine3
• Twenty-Nine4
• The First True Sign of Love Is Anger (29)
• The Mountains Aren't Near Enough to Heaven (29)
• There Is No Moment When One's Youth Is Over (29)
• Truth Is a Passion Uncontrolled by Sense (29)
• Thirty
• Thirty2
• Thirty3
• Thirty4
• Thirty5
• Thirty6
• Thirty7
• Thirty8
• There Is No Darkness in You (30)
• Thirty-One
• Thirty-One2
• Thirty-One3
• Thirty-One4
• Thirty-One5
• The Earth Does Not Regret Its Times of Mourning (31)
• The Thirties: When Dreams Crash Against the Shore (31)
• Those Who Can Help Those Who Need It Most (31)
• To Create a World Requires Passion (31)
• To Find All Cause Within the Present Being (31)
• Truth Is Rarely an Expression of Love (31)
• Thirty-Two
• Thirty-Two2
• Thirty-Two3
• Thirty-Two4
• Thirty-Two5
• Thirty-Two6
• Thirty-Two Guards Well a Sacred Place
• There Are for Giving Many Rationales (32)
• Tough to Know You're in Your Prime (32)
• Thirty-Three
• Thirty-Three2
• Thirty-Three3
• Thirty-Three4
• Thirty-Three5
• The Mountains Seem as Distant as the Years (33)
• The Road to Hope Leads Through Delayed Despair (33)
• The Sun Is Filtered Through a Canopy (33)
• Time Is Not a River but a Sea (33)
• To Imagine What a Better World Might Be (33)
• Thirty-Four
• Thirty-Four3
• Thirty-Four4
• Thirty-Four5
• Thirty-Four6
• Thirty-Four Sings Softly in the Moonlight
• Tell the World How Lovely Is the Earth (34)
• The World Is Brought to Beauty Heart by Heart (34)
• Time Speeds Up as One Grows Older (34)
• Thirty-Five
• Thirty-Five2
• Thirty-Five3
• Thirty-Five5
• Thirty-Five6
• Thirty-Five7
• Thirty-Five8
• Thirty-Five Has All the Joy He Needs
• The Only Hope for Happiness (35)
• Thirty-Six
• Thirty-Six3
• Thirty-Six4
• Thirty-Six6
• Thirty-Six7
• Thirty-Six Knows Well by Now His Goal
• Thirty-Six Sings Well the Song of Life
• The Point of Playing Roles Is Demolishing Walls (36)
• Time Passes like a Stream in Which One Stands (36)
• Time Teaches Us to Love, if We Would Learn (36)
• To Be Consumed by Something More than Beauty (36)
• Thirty-Seven
• Thirty-Seven2
• Thirty-Seven3
• Thirty-Seven4
• Thirty-Seven5
• Thirty-Seven7
• Thirty-Seven Is Immersed in Beauty
• Therapists Find Fortune in Misfortune (37)
• Time Passes like Music (37)
• To Be Sure, There Aren't Many Happy Seahorses (37)
• Thirty-Eight
• Thirty-Eight2
• Thirty-Eight3
• Thirty-Eight5
• Thirty-Eight6
• Thirty-Eight8
• Thirty-Eight Has No Fear of the Future
• Thirty-Eight Is in the Prime of Life
• Thirty-Eight Is More than Just a Number
• Thirty-Eight Is Running for Her Life
• The Way to Look at Life Is Upside Down (38)
• There Is Beauty at the Heart of Business (38)
• There Is No Garden Guaranteed to Bloom (38)
• Treat Yourself to All the Best of Life (38)
• Thirty-Nine
• Thirty-Nine2
• Thirty-Nine3
• Thirty-Nine4
• Thirty-Nine Is Often Full of Wonder
• Talk Is a Phobic Reaction (39)
• The Ocean that We Live on Has No Shore (39)
• The Pleasures of Your Life Are Overwhelming (39)
• There Are No Words to Say How Much I Love You (39)
• There Is No Better Mentor than a Cat (39)
• There Is No Treasure Greater than Your Love (39)
• To Tell the Truth, I Cannot Tell Your Age (39)
• Forty
• Forty2
• Forty3
• Forty4
• Forty5
• Forty6
• Forty7
• Forty8
• There Are Good Things About Being Forty
• Fear Not the Fairest Fortunes of Your Heart (40)
• For Someone Who Devotes His Life to Trees (40)
• For Vegans, There Are Blessings from the Future (40)
• For You, May Every Moment Sing (40)
• For You This Birthday Ought to Be a Sun (40)
• For You This Birthday Ought to Be a Sun2 (40)
• Forty-One5
• Forty-One6
• Forty-One Is Filled with Precious Longing
• Forty-One Lingers in the Moment
• Forty-One Must Cross Her Swollen Streams
• Forty-One Still Sometimes Spreads Her Wings
• Find Your Wilderness Within Your Heart (41)
• For Every Disappointment There's a Dream (41)
• For the Lucky Ones, Life Is Full of Love (41)
• Forests Are a Glimpse of Permanence (41)
• Forests Can Be Rooted in a Soul (41)
• Forgive Me if I Come into Your Bed (41)
• From Desert to Forest, from Sun to Shade (41)
• Future Selves Must Wait, Apart (41)
• Forty-Two
• Forty-Two3
• Forty-Two Surrenders to Desire
• Farmers Ought Not Cut Against the Grain (42)
• Flutes Are Doubled by the Violins (42)
• For Ancient Trees Weeping Once a Year (42)
• Forever Is a Fantasy of Time (42)
• Forever Is Not Merely Time Unending (42)
• Fortune Comes Embellished with Small Print (42)
• Frailty, Thy Name's No Longer Woman (42)
• Friends Can Share What None Can Have Alone (42)
• Forty-Three
• Forty-Three3
• Forty-Three4
• Forty-Three5
• Forty-Three Finds Happiness in Being
• Forty-Three Has Been Well Served by Fortune
• For You the Earth Must Be a Greener Green (43)
• Fruit Abounds Amid the Press of Labor (43)
• Forty-Four
• Forty-Four2
• Forty-Four3
• Forty-Four4
• Forty-Four5
• Family Is a Rescue Squad in Waiting (44)
• Fractures Rarely Heal Right on Their Own (44)
• Forty-Five
• Forty-Five2
• Forty-Five4
• Forty-Five5
• Forty-Five6
• Forty-Five Is Wiser than Before
• Forty-Five Walks Along the Shore
• Fire Comes in Many Hopes and Sizes (45)
• For You, Who Does Such Good, There Should Be Joy (45)
• Forty-Six2
• Forty-Six3
• Forty-Six Has Much to Celebrate
• For You There Will Be Always Gifts of Beauty (46)
• For You, Who Does Such Good, There Is a Heaven (46)
• Forever Is like Getting Off a Train (46)
• Fruit Is but a Fraction of the Tree (46)
• Future Selves Are Built on Past Mistakes (46)
• Forty-Seven
• Forty-Seven3
• Forty-Seven Listens to Her Music
• Face the Fact that You Are Still a Child (47)
• Find Your Perfect Mentor in a Tree (47)
• For Every Rose There Is a Separate Spring (47)
• Fortune Is like Music Minus One (47)
• Freedom Doesn't Come from Being Free (47)
• Forty-Eight
• Forty-Eight2
• Forty-Eight3
• Facts Are Never Simply What Is True (48)
• Fly upon Imaginary Wings (48)
• For You, Life Has Its Own Internal Music (48)
• For You the Earth Shall Bring Forth Greater Glory (48)
• Fulfillment Is a Song That One Must Sing (48)
• Forty-Nine
• Forty-Nine2
• Forty-Nine3
• Forty-Nine Is on the Edge of Fifty
• Fortune Comes and Goes; Love Abides (49)
• Fortune Is More Fortunate Within (49)
• Fortune's in the Eye of the Beholder (49)
• Freedom Isn't Simply: Do Your Will (49)
• Fifty3
• Fifty5
• Fifty6
• Fifty Can Be Taken Well in Stride
• Fifty Is a Moment for Reflection
• Fifty Is a Time of Hope and Healing
• Fifty's Full of Life and Well-Tuned Vigor
• Face the Passing Years as Though a Painting (50)
• Fifty Years a Sojourner, Uncertain Guest (50)
• Fifty Years, and You Remain a Child (50)
• For a Mother, a Daughter, a Teacher, and a Friend (50)
• For Some Life Is Too Full, and Overflows (50)
• For Those Who Would Make Life a Thing of Beauty (50)
• For You It's Been a Steep and Sometimes Tortured (50)
• For You There Can Be No Regret (50)
• For Your Fiftieth Birthday Let Us Sing
• Fifty-One
• Fifty-One3
• Fifty-One Is Entering the Fall
• Fate Is Oft the Filament of Passion (51)
• For All the Years I've Wandered Through My Life (51)
• Fortune Is a Patchwork (51)
• Fifty-Two
• Fifty-Two2
• Fifty-Two3
• Fifty-Two4
• For Every Moment You're Immersed in Beauty (52)
• Fifty-Three
• Fifty-Three3
• Fifty-Three Remains an Open Field
• Fifty-Three, Well Armed with Expertise
• Fashion Finds No Favor in Your Heart (53)
• Feelings Are Not Easily Counterfeited (53)
• Fortune Often Will Return the Favor (53)
• Fifty-Four
• Fifty-Four2
• Fifty-Four3
• Fifty-Four4
• Forever Is a Metaphor for Now (54)
• Fortune Leaves No Reason for Regret (54)
• Fulfillment Is Entirely Up to You (54)
• Fifty-Five
• Fifty-Five2
• Fifty-Five3
• Fate Is a Consortium (55)
• For You There Is No Greater Good than Beauty (55)
• Fifty-Six
• Fifty-Six2
• Fifty-Six3
• Fifty-Six Devotes Himself to Beauty
• Forget that You Are Much Esteemed and Loved (56)
• Flowers Flourish in Their Proper Clime (56)
• Fifty-Seven2
• Fifty-Seven's Not Afraid of Silence
• Fear Might Well Be Likened to a Wall (57)
• For What Have You Arrived upon This Shore (57)
• Fifty-Eight Comes Often to the Table
• Fifty-Eight Has Fields That Now Lie Fallow
• Fifty-Eight Still Finds Delight in Learning
• For Those Who Love (58)
• Fortune Comes in Many Shapes and Guises (58)
• Fifty-Nine
• Fifty-Nine3
• Fifty-Nine Takes Pleasure in Exposing
• Find Yourself a Purpose and a Goal (59)
• Fortune Is the Child of Will and Chance (59)
• Sixty
• Sixty2
• Sixty3
• Sail On, O Ship of Dreams, into the Evening (60)
• Silence at the Center of the Soul (60)
• Sing, My Loved One! Sing of All the Glory (60)
• Sixty Years Is Cause Enough to Sing
• Sixty-One
• Sixty-One3
• Sixty-One4
• Sixty-One Still Sings of Love and Dreams
• Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day (61)
• Shall There Be a Moment After All (61)
• Sixty-Two
• Sixty-Two2
• Sixty-Three
• Sixty-Three2
• Sing of Who and Where and What You Are (63)
• Solitude Is Never Yours Alone (63)
• Savor the Sweet Taste of Simply Being (64)
• Sing a Song of Sweet but Silent Beauty (64)
• Sing as Though a Choir of Angels Near (64)
• Some Would Have the Courage of Their Dreams (64)
• Sixty-Five
• Sixty-Five2
• Sixty-Five Suspends Her Animation
• Sing of All the Goodness You've Been Granted (65)
• So May You Know the Pleasures of Your State (65)
• Souls Seem to Stay the Same; the Body Ages (65)
• Sixty-Six
• Sixty-Six3
• Sixty-Six Is Now in Full Career
• Sing of the New Morning of Your Life (66)
• Some Find It Quite Sufficient to Endure (66)
• Some Find Their Identity in Courage (66)
• Sixty-Seven
• Sixty-Seven2
• Sing of Love and Love-Sustaining Passion (67)
• Sixty-Seven's in Her Golden Years
• Sixty-Eight
• Sixty-Eight Sings Silently of Light
• Sing of Passions Greater than the Self (68)
• So May One Do Good That Does No Good (68)
• Sixty-Nine
• Sixty-Nine2
• Sing of Gardeners, Who Nurture Beauty (69)
• Souls Are Sovereign in Their Own Domain (69)
• Seventy
• Seventy2
• Seventy3
• Sing for All the Years You Have Been Granted (70)
• Sing of Lasting Love, the Gift of Eden (70)
• Some Pass Silently Across the Stage (70)
• Seventy-One
• Seventy-One2
• Salvation Is a Song That One Can Sing (71)
• Sing of the Sweet Sunlight of the Soul (71)
• Seventy-Two
• Seventy-Two2
• Seventy-Two3
• Shake Up the World! It Could Use Some Shaking (72)
• Silence Never Was a Long-Term Option (72)
• Seventy-Three
• Seventy-Four
• Sing Me an Old-Age Lullaby (74)
• Seventy-Five
• Single Life Is Hard for Those Who've Shared (75)
• So Many Times I've Watched My Time Go By (75)
• Seventy-Six
• Seventy-Six Has Sown the Sacred Seed
• Sole Proprietor and Only Inmate (77)
• Songs Lend Thought the Persuasive Force of Beauty (77)
• Seventy-Eight