CHAPTER 11What Just Happened Here?

Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.

JOHN GARDINER

IF YOU have ever walked through a garden or other professionally planted environment during the winter months, you have probably seen plants, small trees, or bushes cut back to where, to the untrained eye, they look dead. It is almost enough sometimes to cause you to question what just happened here! It only takes a couple of minutes, however, with a professional gardener to learn that left to their own the plants would become a tangled and unorganized mess instead of the beautiful creation that we all love and admire. This process of pruning is performed to cut away the dead parts, the sick or dying parts, ...

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