Varieties of Resilience — Rumi
Rumi captures this distinction I often point to, between domesticated resilience and wild resiliency, precisely. There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorizes facts…
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2007
Varieties of Resilience — The Resiliency of a Victim
There must be as many varieties of resilience as there needs for it: excuses for not changing, hungers for thriving, and invitations for transformation, evolutionary calls for mutation and development…….
Everything is Alive!
Everything is Alive! is the fourth Wild Resiliency Assertion. From the perspective of Forest, everything is alive. What is waste for one is food for another. Death for one is…
Dimensions of Resilience
I have an older sister, now in her early sixties. Kay had a brain tumor at the age of about five; an experimental operation was performed to save her life…
Cosmogenesis is Alive and Well!
Cosmogenesis is Alive and Well! is the third Wild Resiliency Assertion. The cosmos is yet birthing itself. Life is an emergent manifestation out of a Great Unknown, one all names…
Life is a Participatory Process!
“The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad dry…
Resiliency Invitation & Challenge
This is a long one, so I recommend sitting down with a good cup of coffee or tea first; I’ve got a bit of territory to cover, and I don’t…