When an intense forest fire burns through a mountain pine grove, something remarkable happens beneath the ash. The aspens were never truly gone. An aspen forest is not a collection of individual trees — it is a single, massive underground root system, ancient and patient, waiting for exactly this moment. The fire doesn’t kill the aspens. It clears the canopy. And into the sudden sunlight, thousands of new shoots push upward — trembling and silver, a sea of new life rising fro

As artificial intelligence takes over the routine, the linear, the prescribed, the mind that was never wired for routine, becomes the most extraordinary mind in the room.

Celebrating what is right with your child is not the same as ignoring what is hard.