grieving for the glittering chances that I let slip away. One day I confessed my failure to an associate of Ram Dass, a spiritual master, who said to me, “you can be your best, you can be Buddha and find happiness
and a good banana split. Almost in that order. With him being autistic, I’ve had to learn a new approach on many things in our lives, but especially change when it comes to him. We stick to a routine as much as possible for his sake. ...