What is a man?
I… I am a man, or so they tell me. But what, pray tell, is a man? Or a woman for that matter, in truth, I mean. If either be…
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Resiliency
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 — a Loyalty to Passion
What does it take to be loyal to our deepest joy? our greatest passion? In the face of other’s disbelief in us, how do we hold the ‘fire in our…
Open Forum: Your Wild Resiliency
My friend Marc Choyt, The Circle Manifesto blog, recently posted a question to my first Varieties of Resilience post, The Resiliency of a Victim, asking what the keystone of my…
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…