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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.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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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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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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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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Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
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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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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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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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