Where does individuality begin? How does family shape a child's life story? What helps us retain the capacity to love, search for meaning, endure difficult times, and remain ourselves in a rapidly changing society?
In these eleven essays, physician and researcher Lyudmila Lukina reflects on family, child development, health, individuality, ecology, science, and human destiny. She draws on a long medical and research career, including her work in rehabilitation involving Black Sea bottlenose dolphins.
This is not a collection of universal prescriptions, but an invitation to think carefully about love, meaning, happiness, and the relationship between the individual and society.