The most personal question anyone can ask is "Who am I?" It is the fundamental question of our human existence.

Who is this person whose face reflects in the mirror every morning? Who is this person who laughs and cries, who works and plays, who eats and drinks and goes to the bathroom? Who is this person who hears and sees, smells, tastes and touches the world around?

In one of his delightful books, Horton Hatches an Egg, Dr. Seuss portrays the agonizing search for an answer to this question. Horton, the friendly elephant, is asked by a mother duck to watch over the egg in her nest. She then takes off to more exciting places and events. Before she can return, the egg hatches and the little duckling emerges but does not know who or what it is. So it asks anything and everything it encoun…