Pizzey's Perch

Syn­onyms for matur­ing in the Mer­ri­am-Web­ster dic­tio­nary include: devel­op­ment, growth,  mat­u­ra­tion, and ripen­ing.
Log­i­cal­ly, then, adults should be mea­sured not by what they start­ed out as, but what they have become.

In prac­tice, today’s yard­stick is best summed up by the reply the har­ried edi­tor in Eve­lyn Waugh’s “Scoop” used to counter his proprietor’s mad­cap ideas: “Up to a point, Lord Copper.”… Read the rest