We've misunderstood growth. How did it happen? How did we end up misprojecting growth onto the material? Somehow we've built this collective engine to generate external growth, fueling it with ambition, desperately seeking recognition, and ultimately feeling empty and hungry in the end.

We need and thrive off growth -- internal growth, growth in wisdom, growth in the openness of hearts, in relationships. When and how did this get sidetracked to growing cars, economies, and perfectly sculpted lawns and bodies?

We know all this, of course. But, it doesn't matter because we need first to learn a collective lesson through experience. Somewhere someone wise said that knowledge will become wisdom only if we've emotionally experienced/understood (felt, tasted, sensed, etc.) it. This is probably why we learn so well from mistakes--they're only born in retrospect.

My friend Paul was telling me today about circular theories and how special they are. I love circular theories. They're never what they seem on the surface. Kelly, just like this tree!