Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being. ~ Margaret Mead, Cultural Anthropologist.
I've been thinking about this statement. Seems to me to be true. I feel like part of me is missing a lot of the time. I don't think scattering across the continent, often the world, is good for grandparents or grandchildren.
Painting ~ The Draughts Players, Robert Gimmell Hutchison 1855-1936
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