"Age is no guarantee of maturity"
- Lawana Blackwell

-For Sonny, he does not reach his initiation until a good part of his life is behind him. When he finally moves above his addiction, he looks back and sees lost dreams and time wasted in a world of drugs.

- Dexter and Judy are both full grown adults who have still not gone through initiation. Judy lives like a child, continuously hurting the people who care for her. Meanwhile Dexter can't get away from his high school sweetheart, and won't let go of the shining memories of his past.

- Kings spend their whole lives being told what other people think. King Richard was no exception, he was about to die by the time he began to listen to himself and realize his followers are his equals.

- Emily Dickinson's poem, undefined and simple, does not imply any specific age. This poem, and the quote stated above, speak to the fact that initiation and age are separate concepts. Wisdom does not always come with age.

Written collaboratively by Julie Philippe, Caroline Burlingham, and Anna Holt