Malleable

Definitions: (1) a capacity for adaptive change; amenable; (2) willing to be altered or influenced by outside forces; yielding

Balancing Quality: Sturdy

Familial Quality: flexible

Quote: The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. — Peter Ludwig Berger (1929–2017) Austrian-born American sociologist
     Note: Not only recollection and the vagaries of memory but also the layers and layers of growth helping us to put history in a broader context.