Celebrate Depth

    My childhood in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s was full of sayings and proverbs and quotes “as my grandmother used to say”.

    Repeated themes ran through them: lessons that children were expected to absorb in order to become useful cogs in society's wheel.
    I have been thinking, recently, about some of these: don't judge a book by its cover; beauty is only skin deep; don't judge the marmalade by the label on the jar.
    I was still a child when the American Civil Righ...

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