Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
This book explores the concept of composing a life as an improvisational art, particularly relevant for women balancing career and family in the late 20th century. The podcast extensively discussed the book's central metaphor and its implications for a constantly changing world.
I've read Composing a Life and I read With a Daughter's Eye years and years ago
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Episode: [Unedited] Mary Catherine Bateson with Krista Tipp...
This book explores the concept of composing a life as an improvisational art, particularly relevant for women balancing career and family in the late 20th century. The podcast extensively discussed the book's central metaphor and its implications for a constantly changing world.
I've read Composing a Life and I read With a Daughter's Eye years and years ago
In a stable society, composing a life is somewhat like throwing a pot or building a house in a traditional form. The materials are known, the hands move along familiar tasks, the fit of the completed whole in common life is understood.
I like to think of men and women as artists of their own lives, working with what comes to hand through accident or talent to compose and recompose a pattern in time that expresses who they are and what they believe in, making meaning even as they are studying and working and raising children, creating and recreating themselves.
Composing a further life?