Resilience Requires Flexibility
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Resilience Requires Flexibility
We manage to get through many of these disruptors with only minor upset to our lives. We adjust, draw on our loved ones, recalibrate our life stories.
Bruce Feiler • Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
Poetry makes our thinking and being flexible, prepares us for surprises, invites us into risk, into a complex interplay of references and meanings.
Mike Kauschke • The Poetic Art of Living in a Time Between Worlds - Emerge
Rather than avoiding, or on the other end, attempting to fix, change, or beautify something that is difficult, what if we simply allow ourselves to encounter it as we can bear it — perhaps for brief moments at a time, humbly noticing our own limitations and returning again when we are able?