In reading Rivers, I cannot shake the image of the Nine of Swords; the messenger of the Tarot to say that something is uneasy, or perhaps one has been “tossed around by world” (57). I believe a throughline in Rivers’ piece is that in the act of consensual attention, we take up a certain degree of risk: in other words, perhaps to reach attenderness, we must face our own vulnerabilities, seek our weaknesses, face them fully in order to understand and subsequently design our attentions towards meaningful care. (88)[MR-19]
[Rivers, 2020]