"True growth comes when opposing forces meet at an estuary and learn to coexist. The meeting is an overlap of what you were and who you are becoming." -- ShadowsPub
We don't need to reconcile differences but can find space for them to coexist. Differences do the necessary work of learning and growing.

So, even with that baaaaaaaddd joke, I still need to coexist with @bitterirony? Really??
well of course you do LOL
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I once moved to an estuary but I had a lot of egrets afterward.
And like most estuaries, there's a give and take of the opposing tides, eddies, and currents. Here's a pic of my local estuary, about 500 meters from where my boat was moored, less than 1/2 mile from the camper!