A Reminder About Maturity Inspired By Tonight's Anne Labovitz Opening at the Tweed

It’s not the passage of time, but suffering, that ushers us into maturity, though it isn’t suffering in and of itself that accomplishes this. It’s how we respond to these vicissitudes of fate that determines what we will become, for as the proverb correctly asserts, “The same sun that melts wax hardens clay.”