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A Young Apprentice Applied To A Master Carpenter For A Job. The Older Man Asked Him, "do You Know Your Trade?" "yes, Sir!" The Young Man Replied Proudly. "have You Ever Made A Mistake?" The Older Man Inquired. "no, Sir!" The Young Man Answered, Feeling Certain He Would Get The Job. "then There's No Way I'm Going To Hire You," Said The Master Carpenter, "because When You Make One, You Won't Know How To Fix It.

Part Of The Problem With The Word 'disabilities' Is That It Immediately Suggests An Inability To See Or Hear Or Walk Or Do Other Things That Many Of Us Take For Granted. But What Of People Who Can't Feel? Or Talk About Their Feelings? Or Manage Their Feelings In Constructive Ways? What Of People Who Aren't Able To Form Close And Strong Relationships? And People Who Cannot Find Fulfillment In Their Lives, Or Those Who Have Lost Hope, Who Live In Disappointment And Bitterness And Find In Life No Joy, No Love? These, It Seems To Me, Are The Real Disabilities.

Often, Problems Are Knots With Many Strands, And Looking At Those Strands Can Make A Problem Seem Different.

You Make Each Day A Special Day. You Know How, By Just Your Being You.

Whether We're A Preschooler Or A Young Teen, A Graduating College Senior Or A Retired Person, We Human Beings All Want To Know That We're Acceptable, That Our Being Alive Somehow Makes A Difference In The Lives Of Others.