This was a typical exchange for Mr. Vasandani, a young singer with a flexible grasp of jazz traditions.
They share a flexible grasp of the jazz tradition, informed by the pop influences of their age group.
Since the lost decade, Japan's labour force has become more flexible, as the post-war tradition of lifetime employment has waned.
At Ise no secular visitors are allowed inside the sanctuary, but at Izumo the tradition is more flexible, less mysterious, altogether more friendly.
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If these family gatherings are convened on a regular basis, they can increase the likelihood that the founding generations' values will be passed down in a way that adheres to family tradition, while remaining flexible to the varying interests of subsequent generations.
It's flexible, of course, as any tradition needs to be.
Having been brought up in two traditions, Gaiman is flexible in his devotions.
"Paradoxically, small businesses are a lot more flexible, less convention- and tradition-bound, and more likely to be able to decide to get on with it now there are pretty easy to use products for networking them," says Laurie McCabe, an analyst with Summit Strategies of Boston Mass.
A flexible labour market and a long tradition of emigrating to find work facilitated the transition – net outward migration since 2008 has been greater proportionately in Ireland than in Greece despite unemployment being much higher in the Aegean state.
