All in the Family

Succession reminds us that family is forever

Dec 15, 2021

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Francisco Goya's painting of a deranged Saturn (Cronus), with matted long grey hair and a grey beard, holding one of his children in his hands. The "child" is an adult-proportioned miniature, with one arm and head bitten off, and blood staining the body. Saturn is in the midst of consuming the other arm. — *Saturn Devouring his Son* by Francisco de Goya, c. 1820 (public domain - Wikimedia Commons)

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“The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.” — G.K. Chesterton, 1919

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