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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.
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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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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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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 tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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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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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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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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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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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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