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…
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1 The River of Life — The Art of Living
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…
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 — 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…
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…
A River of Life
There is a River of Life arising out of the Deep Silence that gives birth too to Deep Time. We ourselves are born out of this Ground of our Being…