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

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.

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.

Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.

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.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.