To be know and live on terms with what could be otherwise means:

• To be alert to the permanent possibility of surprise.
• To embrace the anxiety of listening to stark otherness.
• To show hospitality to truths that await invitation to enter.
• To be faithful to mute realities that speak only in experiment.
• To respect every thing as the heart of an everything.
• To remember that every single time “this time is different.”

This practical knowledge of actualizing what might be otherwise can be called otherwisdom.