You and I grew together and we are inside each other's hearts. We don't have to explain. We know. We understand. (Chapter 25 p198) - Patricia Grace

People need to inhabit the work. I’ve always been interested in writing about those interrelationships – especially the intergenerational ones. It’s a matter of finding ways of doing that which enable different characters to have clear identity. Storytelling is one way I’ve found very useful – having different characters telling about the same things, each one bringing a new aspect and further enlightenment to the accounting.

She told of gifts that she'd been given, and how gifts once given cannot be taken away and do not change. Gifts did not change even though there could be a shifting in the self caused by pain. (The Stories, chapter 28 p174)

Salt cures.
Sea washes. It cleans.
Expanse enlivens the spirit, frees the mind.