The Texas Rangers' Misunderstanding of Resiliency
Two simple and yet profound strategies to increase the resiliency of any team or person.
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Varieties of Resilience
Do One Thing!
“Do one thing!” desperation urges me
“One thing,” as if that single act
must change my life
One thing, with presence
the heart of resiliency
This is the heart of resiliency. It looks and behaves differently in each of us and at different times in our lives and in history itself. It’s grounding however is in loyalty to the love of Life, and in the courage required to find a voice of our own in affirmation of a wild joy and wisdom within.
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?
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…
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…