The cap on the acorn represents the parents who hold us and protected us until we are ready to separate and make it on our own. And the stem represents our connection to all the other oaks and acorns back over the years that brought us to this point today. Without their contributions this acorn…

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I thought of a famous Buddhist Saying when I read one of my favorite comic strips this morning Pearls before Swine, by Stephan Pastis: I have been insulted! I have been hurt! I have been beaten! I have been robbed! Anger does not cease in those who harbour this sort of thought. I have been insulted!…

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