“When my kids were young,

I played a game with them.

I’d give each of them a stick. One for each of ’em,

and I’d tell them to break it.

They’d do that easy.

Then, I’d tell them to make a bundle of all the sticks,

and try to break that.

A course they couldn’t.

I used to say that was family, that bundle.”

(from The Straight Story)