Choosing Heart and Risking Vulnerability
I am the river and the river is me. — Maori saying “Do I contradict myself? Very well, then. I am large. I contain multitudes.” — Walt Whitman There are…
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1 The River of Life — The Art of Living
Resiliency — a poem by Allison Burnett, and Reflectiions
Resiliency I’m weary of resiliency. I want the kind of heart that breaks The way a wafer cracks in two — Along a fault. Mine merely aches And bends, as…
Poetry of Resilience — A Film and 6 Poets
James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games, speaks about the role of poets in society. He speaks with a disturbing eloquence even, of how they carry our hope for the future;…
Communion — as a Strategy of Resilience
Many a thoughtrunning through this 2:00 AM mindlike children in a playgroundeach following a trailof their own spontaneous desiretogether and alone weavingwebs of patternsmirroring how it iswe commune with the…
Sleeping with Rumi: Two Kinds of Resilience
It is true. I slept with Rumi last night. Yes. It is true too that he wears a beard and that after a January’s week of being alone in a…
The Season's Best Gift—in these challenging times
There’s a lot going on for all of us these days. Least ways, sure seems that way in my corner of the world. I’ve been in some deep incubation, too…
Happiness and Health Research In: Nurture Friendship!
This, from Lynne McTaggert’s blog, reminds me of a post here: Lonliness and Presence—What the Aspen Know. The Circle of Life November 28th, 2008 by Lynne McTaggart I was struck…