Features
Every month we will be showcasing a new feature. This month Alan starts an investigation into resilience and self reliance and how it connects to the concept of home and something no want wants to discuss – homelessness, and immigrants.
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INVESTIGATION: RESILIENCE PART ONE
Ok, so it’s not a catchy title, but it encapsulates everything that I have been trying to achieve over the last 20 years. I will have to come up with a better title, but for now I think it’s better that I explain what it’s all about… If you haven’t read any of The Natural…
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INVESTIGATION: RESILIENCE PART TWO
Home and homelessneSS If you don’t have your own home, whether rented privately, government provided, or even owned outright, there are various words that can describe you… homeless, vagrant, vagabond, rough sleeper, derelict, displaced,disposessed.. If you are a vagrant, you could also be decribed as a bum,vagabond , tramp or drifter… none of these terms…
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INVESTIGATION: RESILIENCE PART THREE
the way forward… We all know that in times of war, and great natural ‘disasters’that people can come together, to be resilient, to dig deep and survive, and ultimately thrive, but as soon as it’s over people are quite happy to go back to routine lives, and there’s nothing wrong with that…but, and there is…
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INVESTIGATION: RESILIENCE PART FOUR
HOME LIFE You’re using too much, you want too much, and there’s too many of you! Part of my reilience training was giving up all the things I loved having, including a nice house, a sports car, and a family, but I’d still like all those things! They’re nice, aren’t they! It’s nice to get…
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SELF RELIANCE AND RESOURCING
I have long believed that being reliant on the external, can cause immense problems! I am not alone in being reliant on others, for everything from clothing to food, to energy, to travel, to accomodation… and all this tak of self reliance is actually, wishful thinking at best, ignorance of reality, at worst. Being resilient…
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