I wrote this on a retreat in September of 2011. “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” An idiom that symbolizes the idea that one and one’s offspring may not be all that different from one another. The nuclear family is the central piece of this idiom and so it’s fair to say that it’s probably rooted in Western tradition. If it were Eastern, it may not focus on the individual apple and the individual tree – because villages, and extended families raise children in Africa and Asia. And so the conversation might be about an apple grove and a bunch of apples.
“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
I wrote this on a retreat in September of 2011. “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” An idiom that symbolizes the idea that one and one’s offspring may not be all that different from one another. The nuclear family is the central piece of this idiom and so it’s fair to say that it’s probably rooted in Western tradition. If it were Eastern, it may not focus on the individual apple and the individual tree – because villages, and extended families raise children in Africa and Asia. And so the conversation might be about an apple grove and a bunch of apples.