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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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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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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity.
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