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

Mary Catherine Bateson

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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.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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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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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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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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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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A disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.
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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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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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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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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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