With a subtlety born of years spent in China, Johnson explains how traditional rituals help people overcome urban anomie and answer the "pragmatic but profound issue of how to behave" at critical life junctures.
As at many life junctures, women should assess their finances and act proactively.
What happens in our schools is not a big-screen phenomenon but reality for millions of children and families at some of their most critical life junctures.
Even if a family has not held a formal end-of-life conversation, they may well have heard their loved one express thoughts in passing or at particular life junctures, such as before major surgery or while experiencing a death of a loved one.
The most common ailments people tend to bring to them are the life-juncture transitions, Berthoud says: being stuck in a rut in your career, feeling depressed in your relationship, or suffering bereavement.
He enjoys the view of detours, leaps over hurdles, and seeks positivity in every juncture life presents.
Like all good parodies, though, it also exposed the heartbreak beneath the funny and the absurd: it is very hard for an entire society to live without knowing how to act at life's key junctures.
He is the boy from the poor family that endows him with gifts of character beyond price, who applies himself, and who at life's critical junctures meets remarkable, disinterested people who give him the right kind of help.
So looking back on life's important junctures was on Bezos's mind when he came up with what he calls 'the regret-minimization framework' to decide the next step to take at this juncture in his career".
To help other couples who arrive at this juncture in life.
The planets show his life at a major juncture; he is only just beginning to establish roots and a sense of real security.
