This was for Creative
Therapy #14 (what’s one lesson you’d teach your kids) and an AMM spotlight for Tattered
Angels. It is really really shiny in person. here’s the journaling:

Little boy, there are so many lessons I wish I could teach you. I wish I
could teach you to enjoy each and every moment of life. I wish I could
teach you to treat everyone with love and respect. I wish I could teach
you to always be curious. To laugh often. To have a lot of courage. To
give and ask for help.

The list goes on and on.

But if I get to pick one single lesson to share with you, it will be to
always have integrity. Always do what you say you will. When you say you
will. Keep your word. If you respect yourself and others, people will
respect you and trust you on your word. That’s the most valuable thing
you have in the world, David. Your word.

There are times in your life you feel like cutting corners or doing
things you might not later be proud of and I urge you to take the extra
few seconds to think things through, my son. Be honest. Many things can
be mended but a loss of respect is incredibly hard to recover. Your word
is how others see you.

Your word is who you are. Live your life with integrity and character,
my son. It is the very best advice I can ever give you.