Awareness

These pages concern attention, judgment and staying in contact with other people. The oldest sets out the color code of awareness, a scale running from switched-off white through yellow, orange and red that is widely taught as a way to describe how alert someone is at a given moment. A companion page collects exercises for staying steady under stress, among them Kim’s game, a memory drill for noticing detail, and emergencies talked through in advance.

A page on carrying a small bright flashlight treats it first as a light, a way to see trouble early and move away from it. Another looks at locksport as a hobby, its history and the laws around it, and why some people learn how the locks on their own doors work. One makes the case for an amateur radio license as a way to reach others when phone networks fail.

The longest condenses a forum question-and-answer session with a man who lived through the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s and described how people there found fuel, food and safety.