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Dear friends,



What is tradition after all? All of us seem to know. How do we relate to it? To keep it, to stay attuned – is that a virtue? To change it, “accustom” it – speaks that for a modern mind?

Our land lady in Colombo, Sri Lanka got married – very well within the tradition – at the age of 15. She became a mother at the age of 16. Cora asked her, if she was not afraid. She said “no, because my mother took charge of everything”. What is “everything”?



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