It seems as though our culture fosters the idea that we are clones, that we are all the same.

But after you get past baby/child/teenager, adult/middle-aged/old/elderly, male/female, color, religion, right/left-handed, then we seem to stop and debate every idiosyncracy:  whether we work day or night, whether we sleep on the right or left side, whether we have the TV on when we sleep or don’t...

Now there’s a great debate going on in the athletic world about who is a man and who is a woman.  Like anything else in the species, everything is very confusing, and nothing is as it seems.As we become more open to possibilities, we can either think we’re progressing or becoming more confused.

That’s why I talk about peace, tolerance, understanding, hope, and love.  If we stay on those courses, at least there’s a guidepost of where we’re going, and we don’t get lost in preconceived notions.

If we didn’t take risks and grow, we’d all be sitting in a cave, wearing bearskins eating gruel, wondering what the sun is, and how do kids come about?