i like your term “response + ability” it is a name i used in another story i am writing about a sept 11th survivor.

I guess I read your Facebook page that you maintain for Seth. Good rigorous work!

In biology there is a phrase called, “fight or flight tendency”. Bio-psychologists have been stressing that our reflex action to life’s most problem is either to fight or flight (escape). I guess its fairly true.

Then there is a term called “responsibility”. Broken apart it could be read as response + ability. We do have the ability to choose a response to life’s every circumstance. Well, in theory ( to most of us). The greats, in whatever field you look, have mastered this response-ability by staying put with situation a little longer than most people.
By the way I have subscribed to your blog.