Humor is a marvelous communications tool, as Reagan has demonstrated so well. He has weathered many a storm that others might not have. With Reagan, people just say, 'There he goes again. ' A sense of humor allows a president to back off a little from the tensions of the moment and take a calmer view of things.
The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief. . . . . . Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can be embraced, not out of a desire to suffer, but in the knowledge that something new will be born in the pain.