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On growth: Growth is an elusive concept, though the subject of various aphorisms and pithy witticisms, my favorite among which is 'If you're not growing, you're dying.'
For me, growth is all about being a measurably better person each day than I was the previous one, in some small way. Of course, as with organic plant growth, sometimes short-term pruning losses have to happen to ensure greater and more abundant longer-term growth.
Professionally, academically, personally, my take on it can be summed up by borrowing from various favorite authors: Stay hungry, make meaning, do well in doing good.
Talking about growing...well of course, we would all assume we should be talking about growth in mentality, personal life, or I guess growth in every aspect of our life because we are all constantly growing in one way or another, no?
But I will choose a different path. Let's talk about growing in literal terms.
I seem to be growing in every aspect, or at least I would like to believe that I am, except for one kind of growth I was not gifted with: height??
I seem to have stopped growing, or at least the rate of my growth...seems to be nearing zero. Now, you may say that it's because I passed the age and I can't grow anymore, but WRONG - my sister grew about five inches in college and my mom grew more than ever after marriage (I do not lie about these things!).
So let's hope that my growth rate starts kicking in and parallels my other growth rates that seem to be striving ever so well!!
growth, height, the body changing... I know it may sound banal and slightly gross but no one warned me about certain "unwanted growth" that I have noticed as I approach 30: hair in my ears, on my back, skin tags...Memory and observation skills growing worse...sigh. Can anyone recommend some vitamins?
Plants. Life that does not speak - in fact does not produce its own noise at all. Plants hang out and live. And they go on living in silent communication with the world. Its cool.
"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."
smelling cut grass, i sift through dirt and weeds, listen to the birds, feed a feral cat, the wind blows inside, i depend on my neglected garden for a connection to joy.
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On growth: Growth is an elusive concept, though the subject of various aphorisms and pithy witticisms, my favorite among which is 'If you're not growing, you're dying.'
For me, growth is all about being a measurably better person each day than I was the previous one, in some small way. Of course, as with organic plant growth, sometimes short-term pruning losses have to happen to ensure greater and more abundant longer-term growth.
Professionally, academically, personally, my take on it can be summed up by borrowing from various favorite authors: Stay hungry, make meaning, do well in doing good.
Talking about growing...well of course, we would all assume we should be talking about growth in mentality, personal life, or I guess growth in every aspect of our life because we are all constantly growing in one way or another, no?
But I will choose a different path. Let's talk about growing in literal terms.
I seem to be growing in every aspect, or at least I would like to believe that I am, except for one kind of growth I was not gifted with: height??
I seem to have stopped growing, or at least the rate of my growth...seems to be nearing zero. Now, you may say that it's because I passed the age and I can't grow anymore, but WRONG - my sister grew about five inches in college and my mom grew more than ever after marriage (I do not lie about these things!).
So let's hope that my growth rate starts kicking in and parallels my other growth rates that seem to be striving ever so well!!
Oh, growth.
Grace, I sympathize; my nine-year-old brother is as tall as me. I'm the oldest of five and I will be the shortest one in my family!
growth, height, the body changing...
I know it may sound banal and slightly gross but no one warned me about certain "unwanted growth" that I have noticed as I approach 30: hair in my ears, on my back, skin tags...Memory and observation skills growing worse...sigh. Can anyone recommend some vitamins?
Plants.
Life that does not speak - in fact does not produce its own noise at all. Plants hang out and live. And they go on living in silent communication with the world.
Its cool.
"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."
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