
KURT VONNEGUT ON THE NEED FOR BUILDING EXTENDED FAMILIES

The family is the social unit God invented to fill up the world with representatives of his loving character. It’s a place for nurturing and developing babies until they’re mature enough to go out of the family as adults and to multiply his image in other surroundings.
John Townsend • Boundaries: When To Say Yes, How to Say No: When to Say Yes, When to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life



can human beings come to understand their own well-being as linked to that of others, in wider and wider circles, beyond family and tribe?
Krista Tippett • Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
can human beings come to understand their own well-being as linked to that of others, in wider and wider circles, beyond family and tribe?