Kerry Asks Americans To Look

We Want Our Children To Fit In And To Stand Out. We Rarely Address The Conflict Between These Goals.

If There's A Single Message Passed Down From Each Generation Of American Parents To Their Children, It Is A Two-word Line: Better Yourself. And If There's A Temple Of Self-betterment In Each Town, It Is The Local School. We Have Worshipped There For Some Time.

When Speech Is Divorced From Speaker And Word From Meaning, What Is Left Is Just Ritual, Language As Ritual.

Parents Remain Our Touchstones, Fellow Travelers, Even After Death. They Are Both Missing And Present.

Everyone Who Deals With Teens Seems To Agree That The Most Important And Toughest Job Is Staying In Connection And Conversation ... Not Delivering A Lecture But Saying What We Think.