a friend of mine asked me what my favorite age was, either for myself or for raising my children. i answered : IN BETWEEN Because i love the process of growth. see, its not so much the plateau, the year, the ability, the freedom, the intelligence, the fun,the control or the lack of difficulty that i seek, but the process of going from one to the other. i find it interesting that people love: heros overcomers winners successes intimacy romance rags to riches underdogs bootstrap stories the mighty ducks disney movies we love to hear the story of the one who started low, and ended high. we dream romantic dreams of being one of “those” heros. we long for intimacy we value the athlete who overcame a weakness above the one with natural talent. yet we so often live our daily life rushing thru process ourselves. impatiently rushing to the next….anything. looking at the next step so much that we miss the one we are on. the real beauty is not when my son was 2 or my son was 16. it is that i saw him grow from a drooling 2 foot tall being into 6 Read more...