All Entries Tagged With: "adversity"

Methuselah

While we’re enjoying trees as a rich metaphor for our lives, I thought I would toss in this bit of trivia.

Methuselah, is a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, and the oldest known non-clonal living organisms still alive, at around age 4,839 years.  Bristlecone pines grow in isolated groves at and just below the tree line, on dry, cold, windswept mountaintop. 
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Do We Need Adversity to Grow?

I’ve been thinking a lot about this topic.  My last AND next teleconfrance is on this issue because there’s a lot of meat on the bone for us here I think.
I recently posed the above question “do we need adversity to grow” on disaboom.com, a web based community that is “connecting the millions touched by disability.” 
Here’s my [...]