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NPM21 Blog: Resilience Is A Scam by Adèle Barclay
What I mean by that is the way we toss the concept of resilience around like we’re reaching for a small blanket to smother a raging forest fire feels suspect to me. You’re so resilient. You’re so, so strong. I’ve heard these refrains countless times throughout my life as if resilience were a trait, a…
NPM21 Blog: Resilience 2020: Struggle, Strength, and the Gift of Sensitivity by Vironika Wilde
I contemplated abandoning the topic of resilience within five minutes of research. The adverbs I found in every dictionary definition grated on my psyche: “to recover from a crisis quickly, “to return to pre-crisis state quickly,” “to adjust to misfortune or change easily.” Doesn’t sound like me. Other definitions made resilience into some kind of…
Whispers of Ancient Sounds by Suparna Ghosh
Suparna’s video presentation evokes an expat’s musings from across lands and borders and other incarnations, real or imagined. It was inspired by the event sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets, and the 2020 National Poetry Month, with the theme of “A World of Poetry” Here, she has searched through her collection of poems from…
LCP50: Celebrating 50 years
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