For many of us, this year has been a bit of a rollercoaster with daily changes to our current reality and our expectations for the future. Hopes for a return to some semblance of post-COVID normalcy continue to rise and fall in line with case counts and hospitalization numbers. Patterns of rain, drought and extreme weather events are creating rapid shifts in ecosystems and driving us to rethink long held assumptions about the built environment. Cancellations and postponements to signature convenings remind us of just how critical celebrations and gatherings are for community health and for culture bearers to pass on inherited food, story, song, and dance. For the International Sonoran Desert Alliance (ISDA), 2021 was a definitive statement about the undeniable value of seeding resilience through adaptation and co-creative thinking.