Resilience is a concept of great importance as we move into an uncertain future. Rob Hopkins, founder of the Transition movement, describes resilience as the "ability [of communities] to not collapse at first sight of oil or food shortages... their ability to respond with adaptability to disturbance." Our current lives often seem disorienting and impossible, with nightly news proclaiming danger of crime, war, shortages, economic eruption, and medical disasters hiding behind every twinkie. Many of us wonder how it could possibly go on this way.