From a grandfather

My daughter had prepared an entire program for the elementary school where her three children attend grades 4, 2 and kindergarten. It was called the Peace Program centered on the use of the Cube of Love. Twenty parents and 7th and 8th graders were trained as facilitators and introduced the Cube in each class on the first day of school. It was well received and put into practice in each classroom.

My granddaughter asked me to come and speak to her class about the cube and her teacher graciously extended the invitation. I spoke briefly about the points of the art of loving to this attentive, wide-eyed audience and then we threw it: “Be the first to love.” The teacher asked who could give an example and 15 of the 20 students raised their hands: in helping someone who falls down in the playground, going over to someone who was being ignored by the others and inviting him or her to join in the game, shaking hands with the player on the other team who won or lost the game, and so on.

I, too, shared how I love my grandchildren by making pancakes and helping them with their homework.

--Del Wnorowski, Massachusetts