Attend to what remains.
Stay is about honoring what endures after the encounter. Rather than moving on, we create space for resonances to linger, even when they are uncomfortable or unresolved. Staying means holding the questions and shifts in perception that continue to echo within us. It is a practice of reciprocity: noticing what remains and allowing it to shape how we live within our shared environment. Stay is not about closure, but about the continuity of care.
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**Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble ****Reminds us that all knowledge is partial and relational. In Stay, this means we resist closure and stay with what continues to unfold. By returning to experiences and their traces, we cultivate ongoing responsibility and response-ability.
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Anna Tsing – The Mushroom at the End of the World Reminds us that survival and meaning are collective achievements. Stay embraces this through shared reflection and collective artifacts that honor interdependence across species and stories.
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**Maria Puig de la Bellacasa – Matters of Care ****Reframes care as an ethical, political, and affective practice. In Reciprocal Acts, care becomes a form of ecological thinking — not as sentimentality, but as commitment to maintaining relations with the more-than-human world.
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**Robin Wall Kimmerer – Braiding Sweetgrass ****Teaches reciprocity through indigenous knowledge and storytelling. Reciprocal Acts echoes this practice by giving back to the land — an act of gratitude and participation in ongoing cycles of care.
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**Arne Næss – Ecology of Wisdom** Advocates for identification with all life forms as an ecological self-realization. The Stay phase supports this by sustaining relational awareness and integrating ecological identity into everyday reflection.
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