When the script we have hard-wired inside us is upended in favor of a wider affection for life, something else happens. The context produces possibility. Unforeseen options emerge.

But the problem with problem-solving is the idea that a solution is an endpoint. There are no endpoints in complex systems, only tendrils that diffuse and reorganize situations…

Currency decontextualizes.

Sometimes we call that context ‘the system,’ or we label it more specifically as a kind of system: the body, the university, the forest, the globe.

A clarity without ambiguity is one in which we are all asking the wrong questions.

To see something, which you are sure can only be interpreted one way, being interpreted in another is a phenomenon that all of us need practice in.

The words that we have to describe an alternative form of economics are perverted by the frame they are bound in.

We cannot after all vote on the board or rewrite corporate policy from the sidelines. We cannot impose transformation on the institutions. But we can change our relationship to them.

We find what we are trained to see—we find what we have named.