ABSTRACT
Multiple small spheres of personal experience both echo and enable events shared more widely, expressions of moments in which we recognize that no microcosm is completely separate, no tide pool, no forest, no family, no nation. Indeed, the knowledge drawn from the life of some single organism or community or from the intimate experience of an individual may prove to be relevant to decisions that affect the health of a city and the peace of the world. Mary Catherine Bateson (2000)
