Sure there is more to love than that, but this man grew up terrorizing a Houston neighborhood called “Da bloody 5th,” became a preacher and sponsor of youth programs, and overcame years of vicious criticism in the press to become the world’s oldest heavyweight boxing champ.
For him to overcome those challenges and teach the world that love is vulnerability is exquisitely hopeful. For teachers, counselors and parents, tough as we may be, in that next step in our growth in becoming more loving, more courageous, more peaceful — “we’ve got to learn to trust people or we’ll never cross the street.”

The U.S. is by far the world leader in anti-depressant consumption, cocaine use and credit card debt. If those aren’t your problems it’s something else that’s no joke. Whatever has kept us on our side of the street in our life’s growth is serious, and Mr. Foreman’s admonition to allow ourselves time to be weak and hurt with our loved ones, to say we love them and we mean it, to see the people around us as in the same league as angels:  These can help us cross some mean streets.