Growing Up

'I think you have to grow up twice. The first time happens automatically. Everyone passes from choldhood to adulthood, and this transition is marked as much by the moment when the weight of the world overshadows the wonder of the world as it is by the passage of years. Usually you don't get to choose when it happens.

But if this triumph of weight over wonder marks the first passage into adulthood, the second is a rediscovery of wonder despite sickness, evil, fear, sadness, suffering - despite everything. And this second passage doesn't happen on its own. It's a choice, not an inevitability. It's something you have to deliberately go out to find, value, and protect'.

- Magician Nate Staniforth