The message in the bottle is: "We're all on the same journey, you can choose to do it with joy," says Sally. You're going to walk it anyway, so you may as well enjoy it."
It's all the same thing, she says. Life and death, yin and yang, mother to child, child to mother, the circle.
Sally's story is everybody's and the revelations she experienced are both universal and timeless. Revelations, after all, are merely truths waiting to be remembered.
Here's the big one. As she packed up her childhood home and bid a final farewell to all the sights, smells and sounds she treasured, Sally suddenly realized that it wasn't about the house.
"It was about the relationships I was inheriting."
The family, in other words.
The family is what gives our life meaning and makes our nation strong. The family is also what keeps government at a respectful distance -- working for us and not the other way around.
All our political choices should be made in the service of that understanding. That's all. And we've got work to do.
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