This flower is for the people of France, and especially to the city of Paris that has welcomed my daughter for five years, and a city I first visited 32 years ago and fell in love with.   

We must meet and celebrate everyone at the level of our common humanity.

Senseless violence seldom resolves anything.

We must open wide our hearts and work towards peace so no one, anywhere in the world

 feels unsafe or is the target of attack.  This should be our single greatest task as a people and as the world right now.

We have landed people on the moon, we have created devices to talk with each other anywhere in the world so let’s make peace happen. Let’s feed and clothe the world. Let’s create Harmony.