ABSTRACT
The notion of narrative unity allows us the possibility of imagining the living out of a narrative as well as the revision of ongoing narrative unities and the creation of new ones. This chapter describes one dimension of relational ethics as engaging with imagination that calls forth the need to “world” travel and to do so with loving perception and playfulness. In the understanding of relational ethics, the chapter highlights the importance of attending temporally, not only to what is, but to the ongoingness of life making, to the temporality of experience with wakefulness to the ways that lives are shifted and shaped over time and place and multiple relationships. Relational ethics calls us to recognize that one lives in, and co-creates with participants, spaces of uncertainty or liminality, that both defy simple answers to questions of living and simultaneously acknowledges not knowing as part of living ethically in which one takes care to position in places of dis/ease.
