The boyfriend was her most recent kinship, a love affair of five years.
Bohemians, she writes, try to "confront and reinvigorate the premises of society, the definitions of kinship, labor, love, leisure, consumerism and identity itself".
With Nadine Mozon and Jodi Lin in the gripping principal roles and highly commendable support from Cyrus Farmer and Polly Lee, this fable manages in a brief span to grapple with creation, creativity, bigotry, kinship and love, among other topics.
In Ms. Rosenberg's eyes, feelings of kinship or even love manifest themselves as artisanal gifts.
I think dancing and drawing have a kinship – and I love the way her work mixes the obsessive, the ephemeral and the sensuous.
More fundamentally, while the contemporary Western ideal of marriage involves a relationship of love, friendship, or companionship, marriage historically functioned primarily as an economic and political unit used to create kinship bonds, control inheritance, and share resources and labor.
Just his surname, all vowels and one rising consonant, a word people have been saying in Paris for 35 years with respect, love and kinship: uh-LIE-aah.
It's a funny novel and a sad novel because this natural solipsism of ours is belied – rendered both ridiculous and tragic – by our ties of love and kinship to private worlds that necessarily do not centre around us.
"It showed women that in spite of fractured relationships, joy, peace, love and kinship are always a possibility," said Bassett in an email interview.
He feels a deep kinship with dogs: "I love them and whatnot, and they take care of the house and they sense people and how they feel".
This little yellow house was more than just a house; it was a place we felt love for and kinship.
