10.21.10
Friends,
You may not all like the below quote (or at least as much as I do), but, like it or not, I believe it'll make you think, which is really the point of all of this, no? Totally aside from the fact that I (conveniently) want to live and raise my children abroad, I think if you take it less as a command to pick up and "plant" yourself somewhere else forever and ever and more as encouragement to do "test runs" of this planting, if you will, seeing other parts of the state/country/continent/world and feeling unaccustomed earth, then it holds true for most anybody that you are bound to flourish. And then maybe you don't need to stay, to strike your roots there, because you always bring back home with you part of the earth you've touched. Anyway, that's the end of my turn (knee slap). Thoughts?
"Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into...unaccustomed earth."
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