Born March 2, 1991 September 24, 1991
"Remember that life's a great balancing act...""Think and wonder, wonder and think."
"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living."
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
"The storm starts, when the drops start dropping When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping."
"If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good."
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose."
“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.”
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
From the lyrical nonsense of One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish to the dare-to-try-new things of Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss should be something every parent reads over and over (and over and over and over) to every kid.There are so many serious serious things in life, but we have to remember to have fun too!
And yet, having fun does not prevent us from taking seriously the things that need serious taking!
I like to say that my environmentalism was inspired in whole by The Lorax and my anti-ism tendencies date wholely to my exposure to Horton Hears A Who, but life is full of inspirations and challenges, so you'd know better.
Let's just say I am glad to have 'known him', both when I was a child and when I was a parent of young children.
Maybe I should do some rereading . . .
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