Growth
o Feeding nourishes, and pruning promotes growth.
o Branches grow as roots reach out.
o We grow when we shed the wrapping that encases us, just as snakes do. And also butterflies.
o We grow and we learn in solitude and in community.
o Innocence in childhood >>> Integrity in youth >>> Intelligence in adulthood.
o Sequence of growth: From infancy’s innocence and vulnerability, to childhood’s enthusiasm and curiosity, to youth’s idealism and energy, to adulthood’s service and productivity, to old age’s wisdom and serenity.
o Perhaps growth takes the trajectory from wise innocent to naive sage.
