Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

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.

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been reared to merge their welfare with that of the family, with fewer opportunities for either independence or other team identifications, and fewer challenges to direct competition. In effect, women have been circumscribed within that unit where the benefit of one is most easily believed to be the benefit of all.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

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]

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.