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GROWING SPACE

FROM
Break Out: Finding Freedom
When You Don't Quite Fit The Mold
James R. Hasse

"Life can only be understood backwards,
but it must be lived forwards."

Soren Kierkegaard, Life

"Why does your tree do so well?" Liz, Sam Jansen's administrative assistant, asked as she helped me pack the last of my books from the overhead bins above my desk into banker's boxes.

My weeping fig tree was not weeping at all. Thick with dark, green leaves, its branches commanded one corner of my office, and, over the years, I had to occasionally turn the tree so they would not annoyingly invade the space normally belonging to my visitors who sat on the window side of my circular conference table.

"The secret is in the rocks," I confided to Liz. "And, having a large enough pot. The roots need growing space."

Sheila, my sole associate in the communications department at the time, and I had purchased the tree from a local flower shop when Sam first became president in 1977. It was such a little thing.

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