26 June 2017
There is no shortage of pithy, heartwarming or glib adages about family. Oscar Wilde said, "After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations," though this year, post-election, found plenty of blood relations tossed from celebrations and family gatherings. There's another essential family, the constructed family, that motley crew of old friends who have loyally stuck by you over the years. This family we make - a branching original family tree - is where many of us turn when reckoning with The Big Questions. I think people trust their friends exactly because they don't have to be our friends.
