So you want to find happiness and pleasure in this world? Have children. Too late? Well, time to visit the local school, community center, orphanage, Big Brother organization, park and recreation office and find a way to connect with the younger generation. If that doesn't work, relive the child in yourself, your spouse or your friend. Psychologists are discovering that longevity is partially a function of maintaining a youthful outlook and child-like awe and excitement in one's life. When life becomes monotonous, or we fail to perceive the wonderful diversity in nature and the world around us, we are short-changing ourselves and missing the boat.

If you are already blessed with children or grandchildren, take time out to connect with them. No one occupying this planet is too busy to spend time with our charges, or grand-charges."I have yet to hear of an elderly person request as a tombstone epithet "I should have spent more time making money." What we do hear is the lament of that great Civil War poet John Greenleaf Whittier, "Of all things said of tongue or pen, the saddest of them all is 'it might have been'" Let's avoid this lament and renew our efforts to extract happiness and contentment by spending more time nurturing those sensitive little clones of ourselves.