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Meditations on Responsibility, Part II: March 3 2021
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Meditations on Responsibility, Part II: March 3 2021

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Lee and Sarah, Scheveningen, Holland, May 1963.

Sarah is 3 years old in this photograph. I am 7.


March 3

To become responsible means, within the context of its linguistic roots, to pledge myself once again to support the other. 

Respond (late Middle English (as a noun): from Old French, from respondre ‘to answer’, from Latin respondere, from re- ‘again’ + s…

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