How do I cope with this overwhelming situation? What am I going to do to make it through? How do we right this wrong? The answer is pretty much always the same: whatever it takes.
What have you done when the situation demanded it that you didn’t think you would be capable of?
“I’m inspired by people that are marginal. I’m excited by their resilience.”
―Mira Nair
What have you learned about resilience from someone who lived, in one way or another, on the margins?
Is it ironic to celebrate labor by having a day of rest? But our resilience and our ability to move forward is built in part by our having ways to rest and restore ourselves.
What practice restores your body and/or soul?
Certainly the wood that is carved was once part of a tree. Perhaps it was even part of a table or a chair before its current transformation. None of us stay the same shape forever. One name for how we claim our new shape is resilience.
How is your internal shape different than it once was?
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo―far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.”
―Jodi Picoult
What have you been surprised that you were able to carry?
