Resilience: Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress — such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems or workplace and financial stressors. It means "bouncing back" from difficult experiences. (http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/road-resilience.aspx)
I have been participating in some “Resilience training” the Army Reserves is offering my husband as part of his training schedule and I am continually struck by how important some of the ideas are. This seems to really touch on what “Plan b” wants to explore. How to we “hunt the good stuff”? How do we resist “catastrophizing” situations? How do we mentally center ourselves to come back strong?
Some interesting reading regarding resilience:
Also, regarding plastic bottles: the top photo is a drop constructed of plastic bottles. I saw Xochitl Gonzalez speak about this dance piece last spring. This is amazing and beautiful. http://decanteddesign.com/2013/11/26/xochitl-gonzalez-quintanilla-won-best-lighting-design-award-at-world-stage-design-2013-cardiff-for-her-work-on-ex-stasis-staged-at-placia-de-bellas-artes-mexico-see-blogroll-for-a-link-to-her-bl/
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