{"id":19368,"date":"2025-11-25T08:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=19368"},"modified":"2025-11-25T08:21:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:21:40","slug":"entanglement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/entanglement\/","title":{"rendered":"Entanglement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With more and more whales living in the Salish Sea, encounters between humans and humpbacks have increased. There have been several whale strikes this year, and a number of whales killed as a result. So I&#8217;m always looking for good news.  <a href=\"https:\/\/ocean.org\/blog\/the-migration-of-the-north-pacific-humpback-whale\/\">November is the time most of the humpback whales head south to Hawaii and Mexico to give birth and breed.<\/a> Today I came across <a href=\"https:\/\/cascadiaresearch.org\/20251117mn_entanglementresponse\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawORkQxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFsZHpvR0xlUnpkWmRtc3p5c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHvt0jwOH6pFto4ElzKY5bbs6BUAlGyIiJYjMSYi_E8lwmiON28KtmWhR10t5_aem_anse5T5hnDoZT_9PixnaBw\">this amazing story of a whale that will now get to make that journey without the 140 feet of fishing gear she was tangled up in.<\/a> It&#8217;s a great example of how a bunch of good people are using technology and cross-boarder cooperation to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/happywhale.com\/home\">these creatures<\/a> and why citizens science matters as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dave Snowden and Nora Bateson<\/strong> are both helping people to work in complexity. Last night <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Da0Ek_hGB0I\">I settled in to watch them<\/a> discuss a number of quite simple and important ways to approach complex situations.  Especially resonant from this talk: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the need to change interactions, and not change people;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>approach complex situations with inquisitiveness and curiosity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>working with obliquity and the adjacent possible<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>relational work and messy coherence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I might make a slightly more expanded post on this becasue I think they offer some quite direct and accessible things to do in this discussion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My neighbour Emily van Lithe de Jeude<\/strong> is a wonderful artist and observer of the world and she is deeply entangled with our shared space, the forests and shorelines of our island. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emilyartist.ca\/2025\/11\/bones.html\">Here is a reflection from her on bones and the invisible processes that generate the beauty all around us.<\/a> I think Emily embodies much of what Nora talks about in the above video, meeting the world with curiosity and inquisitiveness and leaving more beauty than she found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more and more whales living in the Salish Sea, encounters between humans and humpbacks have increased. There have been several whale strikes this year, and a number of whales killed as a result. So I&#8217;m always looking for good news. November is the time most of the humpback whales head south to Hawaii and Mexico to give birth and breed. Today I came across this amazing story of a whale that will now get to make that journey without the 140 feet of fishing gear she was tangled up in. It&#8217;s a great example of how a bunch of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Entanglement in the natural world, including the world of complexity. 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