"Our 'identity' is not a fixed, rooted 'thing' with a deeply buried core of authenticity. It is instead an ever-shifting constellation of distant lights. A fragile metaphor of triangulation, our source of orientation, emerges from a mass of otherwise indistinguishable stars...The myth of modernity is that history is both progressive and linear, and not a series of beads linked in a circle. The myth is that our families consist of fixed roots, trees and branches, and not constellations of elegant, fragile linkages of desire, light and sharing." Russell Keziere (from Death & the Family)