Looking at its Latin roots
re + sistere
resist
can mean stepping back
for a moment
getting a good read
on a bad hand
before making the leap
which is what ol’ Utah Phillips
crooned at a California Bicentennial
Folk Festival
back in the Seventies
still the tag end of the Sixties
in the San Francisco where I lived
“Every once in a while
you have to wake up &
jump off a cliff”
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