created 14 October 2026 · last modified 14 October 2026
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What It Costs
Prisons are museums of moments. The difference between forgetting and forgiving is structural, not emotional.
Denali Wilson & Chris Perkins
forthcoming
The human price of building, and the physics of forgiveness. Co-written with Denali Wilson, founder of the (De)Serving Life nonprofit. What incarceration teaches about trust repair — and what it proves about the architecture of forgiveness. From Las Cruces. A system built to hold cannot also build. The braid's second voice: forgetting versus forgiving as distinct operations, the asymmetry between betrayal and repair, and why the metabolic cost of reconciliation is not optional.
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APA 7th ed.
Perkins, C. (2026, May 6). What It Costs. Kinetic Trust Protocol. https://kinetic-trust-protocol.net/writing/what-it-costs
Plain text
Chris Perkins, "What It Costs," Kinetic Trust Protocol, https://kinetic-trust-protocol.net/writing/what-it-costs (accessed May 6, 2026).