Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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.
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.