Shared Memories and the Growth of Love
Friday, August 1st, 2008 by Dr Keith J. WhiteWhen I wrote the book, The Growth of Love, I had no idea how it would end. As a boy I was an avid reader of Agatha Christie, and I guess that she, like all good crime fiction writers, worked the other way round: from the end to the beginning. In my case I knew the five themes that would form the heart of the book: security, boundaries, significance, community and creativity, but was not sure how they combined to convey an integrated practical concluding message.
Villages
It turned out that the final chapter was called Of Villages and Compost Heaps. If we leave compost heaps well alone for the purposes of this article, then we can concentrate on villages. What I concluded was that for children to thrive they needed to live in some sort of
Tags: Child theology, Memories, Social relationships, The Growth of Love, Villages
