23 : Love is All You Need
“The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?” -Buddha There are many songs that have been written throughout time about love. Regardless of what decade it comes from, the messages and stories that these songs tell us remain relevant. Perhaps it’s because we’ve all experienced love in our life, or maybe, just maybe, our connections are deeper than that. I’d like to think of love as a universal language, one that unites and binds us as a people, and one that we all speak and understand regardless of where we come from. This week, we all celebrated the day of love: Valentine’s Day. Origami hearts, cutouts, drawings of hearts and chocolates were abound in the Kinder 2 classroom as the children expressed their love to their teachers, parents and friends through little gifts. I asked the kindergarteners: Why do we love these special people in our life, especially our parents? I love them because they cook for m