What Matters is a book about lessons learned from life, and the experiences shared by everyone. The experiences touch on many topics, covering a multitude of situations. They reflect on different stages of personal growth, such as parenting, risk, learning, and self-esteem. The lessons are written as a series of quotes, and each quote is illustrated with a child s work of art. The accompanying art provides a visual underscore and emphasis to the quotes in a provocative, striking, yet free-flowing manner. Each page has the power to deliver the impact that is forged forever into one s memory. What Matters is a story of a personal journey, and the situations, behavior, and decisions that really mattered along the way. What Matters is intended to convey lessons learned by one man, but which are applicable to everyone. The lessons, or observations, or truths in this book, such as they may be, apply to all of us in one way, shape, or form. As we live, as we age, and as we rise or fall, we will cross paths illuminated in What Matters.