Beauty and progress come in all shapes and sizes. Not everyone is destined to be a palm–growing tall, straight, evenly, predictably, linearly.
More often, due to no fault of our own, we manage like a mesquite–traveling sideways, ambling away to grow and explore life in bold directions.
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That’s an astute analogy. And no one looks at a palm and thinks “what an interesting tree”
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That’s right. Thank you, Jeff.
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I love this, Mark. So poetic!!!
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Thanks, Tom.
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