family is blood or bond
Relationship by choice is Affinity. Like marriage or adoption, a contingency. A connection undone by death of either one or change in life’s course when estranged by divorce. Revocably sensitive, vowed, but still tentative. For permanence: see Consanguinity.
Roger Kenyon was North America’s first lay canon lawyer and associate director at the Archdiocese of Seattle. He was involved in tech (author of Macintosh Introductory Programming, Mainstay) before teaching (author of ThinkLink: a learner-active program, Riverwood). Roger lives near Toronto and offers free critical thinking and character development courses online.
“When not writing, I’m riding—eBike, motorbike, and a mow cart that catches air down the hills. One day I’ll have Goldies again.”
