I'm so grateful, so grateful for my loving grandparents, for my loving parents, for my wife Denise and for my first wife Dee, for my four loving children, for my three gorgeous grandchildren, for the love of my whole large, loving, extended family, for my many wonderful friends, for my many colleagues, associates, and coworkers in education, for my thousands of trusting students over the years, for the many teachers, professors, philosophers, sages, saints, artists, poets, and writers who have inspired me to study forgiveness, love, and peace, for the bloggers here on Mindsay who have put up with me, and for the second and third and fourth chances that all of these people I've mentioned, and many more, have given me in spite of my countless cruelties, stupidities, and mistakes, and for this day and each day of life, the miracle, in this infinite mystery, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you all!