🥀 Missing Ingredient, Part One

“Pruning enables rosebushes and other plants to realize full potential. Without it, they are just average at best and far less than they were designed to be. If you think about it, there should never be an average rosebush. By nature, there is nothing average about them at all. They are designed for incredible beauty and lushness. But if not adequately pruned, they never make it.”

—Dr. Henry Cloud, Necessary Endings

In Wednesday’s community discussion prompt, I asked how you balance faith and doubt when navigating creative and entrepreneurial pursuits.

And then, due to a series of books I couldn’t put down this week (I inhale them like the soul food oxygen they are), I realized: there is an ingredient missing when it comes to capturing Doh’s raison d'être, one that might seem blindingly obvious to you.