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Dave on December 27th, 2009

Recently, I read how human resilience can be compared to salt. Resilience is the “ability to face reality: to deal with and to grow through life’s challenges.” Like salt, which flavors and preserves the quality of food and helps disinfect harmful materials, resiliency in people enhances, protects and detoxifies their quality of life.
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Dave on April 13th, 2009

The following article came across my desk sometime while I was away.  So many times upon our return to the US I found myself ‘frozen’ in a decision-simple decisions like, what size diaper to purchase for Jille or even a flavor of gum.  On one such occasion I began to cry as I could not [...]

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