Forbidden Knowledge and the Aspen-Body
Western man is trained to see himself as an individual; his manhood is contingent upon an ability to make his way in the world. A stiff upper lip, a chest…
Yearly Archives:
2007
The Aspen Have Been Working me Over
The Aspen have been working me over this morning; I noticed them when I woke at about 2:30 AM. I followed a common pattern of getting up and sitting for…
Everything is Connected to the Whole!
Everything is Connected to the Whole! is the fifth Wild Resiliency Assertion. The phenomenon of non-locality is one of the cutting edge research arenas of quantum physics: how it is…
Seventeen Rules for a Sustainable Community—Wendell Berry
I have long been an admirer of Wendell Berry, so when I stumbled into the below post on The Briarpatch Network, I was twice delighted; once by the re-encounter of…
Resiliency Dancing: Play for Your Life!
“I don’t know how to play,” the man said to me. The statement carried a certain intimacy simply because the man speaking is one of my brothers.Boy in Fountain
Mythologist Joseph Campbell’s admonition to, “Follow your bliss,” would have been heard as a promotion of hedonism in our fundamentalist childhood home.
Varieties of Resilience — a Loyalty to Passion
What does it take to be loyal to our deepest joy? our greatest passion? In the face of other’s disbelief in us, how do we hold the ‘fire in our…
Open Forum: Your Wild Resiliency
My friend Marc Choyt, The Circle Manifesto blog, recently posted a question to my first Varieties of Resilience post, The Resiliency of a Victim, asking what the keystone of my…