The Family Is Changing Not Disappearing. We

Human Beings Tend To Regard The Conventions Of Their Own Societies As Natural, Often As Sacred.

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.

The Critical Question About Regret Is Whether Experience Led To Growth And New Learning. Some People Seem To Keep On Making The Same Mistakes, While Others At Least Make New Ones. Regret And Remorse Can Be Either Paralyzing Or Inspiring. [p. 199]

We Are Not What We Know But What We Are Willing To Learn.

When Parents Die, All Of The Partings Of The Past Are Reevoked With The Realization That This Time They Will Not Return.