“Resilience is about risk and complexity, things that impact all of us.”
~ Brian Walker and David Salt, Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World (2006: xiv)
Engaging Risk and Complexity
Call it in the air.
Let something be misplaced.
Released elsewhere, a vapor,
ungathered steam.
A car rolls, flips into the air
and gyrates at tremendous speed.
We are amazed when we see the driver crawl
Swimming graceless across glistening asphalt
to safety, a refuse-strewn shoulder.
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The question implies that I have nonhuman memory. It also suggests that this alternative memory may have occurred before or after the human versions. Hmmmm!
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