In "Beautiful Swimmers", William Warner's small gem of a treatise on Chesapeake Bay sea life, he writes of blue crabs molting time and again - as many as 18 to 21 times after reaching maturity. Perhaps we humans are that way too: growing, renewing, always moving forward alongside our little community of ever evolving friends and family. Maybe our crab cousins are nature's reminder that significant growth may require vulnerability, as each new era is preceded by a tender, uncertain, sometimes even scary step. READ MORE