I'm so happy to learn about this. Years ago, when my daughter Alexandra was 4 or 5 years old (she's 20), I took her to a free learn-to-meditate event in a big meadow in Central Park. Friends who organized the event invited Alex and I to a reception for the meditation teachers that took place afterwards. Wavy Gravy was there. He introduced himself to my little daughter, telling her that he had an ice cream named after him (Ben and Jerry's Wavy Gravy). He gave her bubbles to blow (as he had been running around doing in Central Park). He also gave her a camera that was really a squirt gun and told her to go squirt Gelek Rinpoche, a lama who was sitting in near us at a table. He sat very still with dignified expression on his face. Alex accepted the squirt gun but refused to "shoot" the lama, saying that it didn't feel right, that it might be mean, that he might not think it was funny. Wavy gently inspired her to play in the situation, to play in life, but she really stood her ground. So irrepressible old Wavy "shot" the lama, who looked startled and, well, ruffled. He didn't laugh. Oh well, maybe the little girl was right on that one, no harm intended. Later, Wavy came up to me and said "I really like your daughter. She has a special quality. She bet she would like my camp. I would love it if she came." Alexandra didn't get to go to the camp, but she cherished that squirt gun camera, the bubbles, and knowing the man behind Wavy Gravy ice cream. I cherished seeing a glimpse of a man who wasn't just playing a part, inhabiting a "persona." He had this beautiful connection to life and was in an ongrowing process of learning how to play with it. His engagement with life was like a green shoot, still growing. I think there is real understanding and compassion for us all in a quote I heard attributed to him: "You have to laugh or it just isn't funny." Congratulations again, Nipun! And thank you!