Passing the Guardians at the Gate—Becoming Indigenous Again!
By what authority do you breathe and live?” The voice demands answers of me. “How dare you bathe so freely in the waters of life drinking even at the spring’s…
Browsing Category:
Resiliency’s Shadow — Domestication
The Power of Attention: ReWilding the Self #6
On this Memorial Day weekend, ReWild your Self! Be a memorial to your own innate wholeness and to the Earth. Choose to listen to the song of your own plasticina. Notice where you place your attention, and how you attend to your own self-care. Love yourself. It is the most radical political and spiritual act of our time.
The Plastic Paradox: ReWilding The Self -5
It is by understanding both the positive and negative effects of (neuro)plasticity that we can truly understand the extent of human possibilities.
Re-Wilding the Self -1
The nails of my fingers
leave claw marks
in the soil of life
from my clinging on
to what is familiar
and comfortable and no longer
serves that which is awakening
Re-Membering Beauty
…part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities. The questions raised: In a common-place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?
Army to Train Soldiers to Cope with Emotions
“The idea here is to give people a new vocabulary, to speak in terms of resilience. Most people who experience trauma don’t end up with P.T.S.D.; many experience post-traumatic growth.”… Perhaps the biggest question — can an organization that has long suppressed talk of emotions now open up?
Resilience poem, "Optimism" by Jane Hirshfield
More and more I have come to admire resilience.
Not the simple resistance of a pillow