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Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
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When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.
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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
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As we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. … We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.
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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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