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  • A mother and daughter are an edge.
    Edges are ecotones, transitional zones,
    places of danger or opportunity.
    House-dwelling tension.
    When I stand on the edge of the land and sea,
    I feel this tension, this fluid line of transition.
    High tide. Low tide.
    It is the sea's reach and retreat
    that reminds me
    we have been human
    for only a very short time.

    Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.15, Macmillan