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With a daughter's eye (1984)
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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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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When parents die, all of the partings of the past are revoked with the realization that this time they will not return.
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Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.
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The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Mary Catherine Bateson
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Born:
December 8, 1939
Died:
January 2, 2021
(aged 81)
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