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October 1984

The Power of Acceptance

MANY OF MY earliest memories are of trying very hard, with a small child's limited resources, to change the people, places, and things in my little life that were unacceptable to me. In fact, it seems that all my life I have pitted my strength and ingenuity against unacceptable situations, trying to change them into situations I could accept. The less they budged, the more frustrated I felt.

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