"Our problem right now is that we're so specialised that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia". ... Margaret Atwood
It was HIGHsummer in 1970 and Winifred West was encountered in the STURTgarden in the early morning, and she was watering a mature camellia tree that she had planted near STURTcottage in STURT's early days.
She had decided that this tree needed to removed to another place. Later on was for her never the time to do things. If one is going to do it do it, do it, but in this case later might well have been better.
When she was asked if she thought that the tree would survive she replied in her Inimitable way ... Humans cannot perform miracles but we can create the circumstances in which they can happen ... and one did. So far as anyone knows that camellia that tree still lives. If the circumstance have been created, a sensibility that it was a part of, its placedness and its shared sense of being in the world, somewhat miraculously and metaphorically all that might survive too.
In our searches for wisdom we might well find that dystopia's beauty might well be that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds albeit that we might yet have the power and inclination to change ... here ... and right now.
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