“What makes kids flourish?”

“Scottish-American naturalist John Muir said: ‘I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.’ To be fully human depends upon whether you are to be someplace, or no place at all… The first thing [kids] need to grow up is a place to put down roots. Then they can grow to know who they are by discovering where they are… Rooted.”

~ Matt Canlis