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come full circle  In today's world life is getting faster. Our
kids are more sophisticated than we were. They are expected to
keep up with technology as well as the basics. We schedule their
free time because we're afraid to let them outside to play. We
funnel them into specialties before they are out of elementary
school and before we know it they are wearing a cap and gown and
walking down the aisle in a graduation ceremony. We budget our
time and have become masters of multi-tasking, but somewhere
along the way we've forgotten crucial basics of living.  We see
it every day in the little things we do. It happens on the road
when we cut someone off in a hurry to get to our next
appointment. It happens in the cafeteria line when someone
pushes their way in instead of waiting their turn and we don't
like anything slower than high speed. In general, life just
isn't as simple as it once was or as courteous as our
grandparents used to say it was. Too