Resilience poem, "Optimism" by Jane Hirshfield
More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow
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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;…
The Season's Best Gift—in these challenging times
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I wrote, in Heart Opportunity Knocking — At Your Door!, of the power of consciously invoking the emotions of gratitude and appreciation and love as tools for shifting our experience…
The New Religion of the 21st Century
The potency of our worldviews is part and parcel of the wild resiliency keystone process, The Power of Arrival — A Self in the World. What I like about the…
The Ecological Self
I thought it was quite a brilliant concept that came through me, this idea of ‘the ecological self.’ Good thing I already knew none of my thinking was original anyway…