Practices for Recovering Resilience
The Perspective of Long, Deep Time
I’ve just returned from an 8-day Wilderness Travel trip kayaking and bushwhacking through Glacier Bay and the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. A trip booked originally in August 2019 from […]
Heroic Listening
I was struck by the juxtaposition of these two quotes this week, the first from Mark Nepo’s webinar series on Fear, Pain, and Grief: Heroes didn’t leap tall buildings or […]
Silent and Overflowing Leisure
The summer peacefulness that the poet Rabindranath Tagore evokes below, the dedication to life in a silent and overflowing leisure, has become a more frequent experience in my retirement. Yes, […]
Focus Fatigue? – Focus Smaller
The cover story of the August 5, 2022 Guardian Weekly is “War? What War? Life in Moscow goes on as if the conflict doesn’t exist.” True, it’s more dangerous to […]
John O’Donohue on Retirement
When I posted and emailed to friends John O’Donohue’s For a New Beginning, a good friend sent in return O’Donohue’s poem For Retirement. I had lost track of it, even […]
Ephemerality
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half […]
“The Anatomy of Peace”
A friend shared this poem in our Gourmet Poets Society gathering last weekend. It cracked us up with its lightness and levity poignantly touching the truth of the “divorce” between […]
Resilience from Excellent Positive Psychology Resource
The Renaissance part of my retirement I’m enjoying a lot. One example, a recommendation from the same friend who sent me the “Celebrating your new office furniture!” card (a hammock): Wonderworks: […]
Take All the Time You Need
My Gourmet Poets Society meets this weekend; some of us meeting in person, masked, outdoors in the garden. Some joining by Zoom. In the process of de-cluttering, which seems a […]
Abiding in Being: Foundational to Resilience
One full month into retirement-Renaissance, now deep into long-postponed de-cluttering [see The Original Map of Resilience], pouring through ten binders of poems collected over 20 years of gatherings of my […]