Team sports are widely heralded as superb training grounds for the resilience and cooperation necessary in the grown-up world. We modern parents urge our children onto the field of play where excited onlookers cheer after every goal scored and every shot blocked. But, as Lao Tzu, author of Taoism, might have said, this is not the Way. Adulthood has no cheering section. A better path is to quietly perfect an

The right words will come, finally, in their own time like my little dog Freddy comes to the door wanting back inside the house. Both the words and Freddy come when they’re ready and not before. This used to really irritate me – the timing, I mean. You know those people who deliver the perfectly timed quip and everyone at the table throws their heads back screaming and laughing? That’s