Tag: resilience
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By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity…
I was never much of a skier; I could do the beginner slopes and even remain upright on the occasional mogul if I followed Girard’s coaxing, but I never enjoyed the challenge like many of my friends. Girard, however, gloried in dares whether on ski slopes or in his rather eclectic social life choices. He…
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Flowers are slow and weeds make haste
Sometimes it’s obvious that we all need to cope –In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced, nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloody but unbowed, in the immortal words of the poet William Ernest Henley. Those words have seen me through many of Life’s crises, but each…