Across medicine, psychology, and the sciences of living systems, the word 'resilience' has accumulated so many meanings that it has begun to lose its power to illuminate. A team of researchers has proposed a minimal but clarifying structure — the SSRO scaffold — that asks every study of resilience to name its stressor, its system, its relevant resources, and its outcomes. In doing so, they offer not a new theory of resilience, but a common grammar through which the many languages of resilience research might finally speak to one another.