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Tuesday, Week Four

Argue for your limits and sure enough they are yours.

Richard Bach

It is always surprising how surprised people are when they try something for the first time and like it. Why is that? One of my many faults is my impatience with people who assume they will not like a food they have never tasted, or a person they have never met, or a place they have never been. It has been the source of many conflicts with my children. I cook dinner for them at least three nights a week, and I am prone to culinary experimentation. These days, everyone knows that they have to try everything at least once, and then they are permitted to say, “It is not my very favorite.” I try to encourage them to keep trying it every now and then because you can acquire new tastes and our tastes can change … and maybe I'm just not cooking it right. That seems to be a parable about much of life.

Why do we talk ourselves out of enjoying so much of life because we have made up our minds and aren't willing to reopen the case? What a terrible thing it will be to make it to the nursing home and discover that we actually DID like Brussels Sprouts; we just didn't like how our mother cooked them 80 years ago.

Blessings,

Michael Piazza
President, Hope for Peace & Justice

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