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May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.
                 — Irish blessing

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 

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Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home.  If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.  — George A. Dorsey, anthropologist

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“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” — George Santayana, The Life of Reason

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Since today is George Washington’s actual birthday, I thought it appropriate to hear from him this week:

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
                                     - George Washington

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A word to the wise…keep your love notes sincere, or you’ll end up on the Internet looking like this:

To Mary, the love of my life:
There is nothing I would not do to reach your side.  I would climb the highest mountain!  I would cross the trackless desert!  I would swim the widest ocean to be near you, my beloved.

With love and tenderness,

Jonathan
P.S.  See you Saturday night, if it doesn’t rain.

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This piece of advice is from Kathleen’s grandmother, who, at 69, has been married for 52 years:
 
“A woman holds all the control in the family.  She is the center of the home.  When she is happy, everyone is lifted, and when she is not, she can drag everyone down with her.  Be generous with your affection, and let the little things go.  And most importantly, if you don’t give your husband what he needs, he will look for it somewhere else.”
 
Sounds like she was practicing “The Proper Care & Feeding of Husbands” long before I ever wrote the book!

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I get thousands of emails, letters and faxes every week.  They can be funny, sobering, trivial, deep.  Every once in a while one comes in that just takes my breath away.  This is one of those:

“I am terminally ill with cancer.  I AM GOING TO BE HAPPY EVERY DAY.  Life is a very great gift.  I am very grateful for each day.  Even if all you get in life is one sunrise or one sunset; life is a fantastic present. I DO NOT FEEL GUILTY FOR MY HAPPINESS.”

She asked me not to use her name.