Minerva's wisdom

In between trips to Kairos, I went to visit my six Sentinel Trees on the other side of the Reserve. All are doing OK.

And nature's bounty is, well, bountiful.

The squirrels and badgers don't bother to eat the offerings I leave with Kairos.

Anyway, I went and sat with Minerva for a bit and I was thinking about the AI and how my new correspondent had described them as cognitive prosthetics. Minerva butted in. You humans don't need that, you need a wisdom prosthetic!

Too right!

And I wondered, what would that look like?

I am inclined to think that it would be about considering things as they are, where you are, and with whom you are. It would not be abstract and generalisable. It would admit ambivalence and paradox, complicity, and that fact that nothing comes without a cost to someone.

A wren sang as I sat there, and I thought, yes. And I thought too that life is also about radical surrender. Not about dominion or stewardship at all.