Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
Mary Catherine BatesonThe family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
Mary Catherine BatesonWorlds 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.
Mary Catherine Bateson