If you cut down a tree, you see rings — each year’s growth goes around the existing tree. So, too, it is with people: The six year old me is still inside somewhere, and the 18 year old too.
Actually, the 18 year old breaks through to the surface far too often.
And the other bad part of the analogy is that, in my case, it’s too exact: Each years growth seems to go around my existing middle!
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There has been a lot of chatter in the blogosphere about medical bloggers and HIPAA regulations so let me make this very clear: I write composite stories about many different people that I've cared for over the years.
Jean-Luc Picard
September 29th, 2007 at 10:38 am
A fine quote.
Doc's Girl
September 30th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Hehe…I like it.
The Curmudgeon
October 1st, 2007 at 10:09 am
I’ve come to think of people as similar to trees.
If you cut down a tree, you see rings — each year’s growth goes around the existing tree. So, too, it is with people: The six year old me is still inside somewhere, and the 18 year old too.
Actually, the 18 year old breaks through to the surface far too often.
And the other bad part of the analogy is that, in my case, it’s too exact: Each years growth seems to go around my existing middle!