The law of karma is something that we refer to a lot in our house, and our 8 year old son is of the temperament where he spends a lot more time arguing against this eternal boomerang than he does acknowledging its truth. I can remember my own youth and the sense of  ‘untouchableness’ that my karmic naivety briefly allowed me to enjoy. These days I am a firm believer that the Universe eventually coaxes (or sometimes beats) the notion of ‘karmic exemption’ out of most of us.

‘Every Man dies, but not every man truly lives.’

I awoke to a middle of the night text message last night. Any parent knows the rush of anxiety that ripples through you when your eyes, bleary from sleep, focus in on your child’s name lit up on your cell phone screen in the wee hours of the morning. I clicked on the message and all that was there was a video- I hit play and the first words of the video stunned me.

Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve.

I hate math, but I love numbers. What does this statement have to do with today's quote? Well, when I read this quote I think of the numbers 4 and 5. Symbolically the number 4 symbolizes Order; while the number 5 is akin to chaos…