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resilience: “more like balance than toughness”

Some helpful tips, to replace the old school advice of “swallow some concrete & toughen up”.https://t.co/dtgbABnloj
— Onepoint Medical (@OnepointMedical) September 1, 2017

Is all going well for you today? Yes or no, this WaPo piece is worth a look.

!g resilience: “more like balance than toughness”

the business case, then and now

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John le Carré: CBC interview

then: “anti-communism” now: “social democracy is being assailed from the east and the west at the same time” https://t.co/09Q18VmSjy
— George Atherton (@notrehta) September 24, 2017

John le Carré: Putin's a skilled & totally unprincipled professional spy while Trump is a childish Caligula.
— Nick (@9Joe9) September 12, 2017

Le Carré's insights into the current political climate were thrilling. The image of a "childish Caligula" will stay with me forever. https://t.co/JSxF1SWamb
— Ann Ford (@hardyfd) September 10, 2017

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Donald Trump at age 55

Donald Trump calls in to WWOR/UPN 9 News on 9/11

(set to begin playback at the start of the 23 seconds of interest)

here is one take on what has been said and done by this man:

whatever in all being is thought of as Donald Trump is an ever-present consequence of whatever is thought of as not Donald Trump

in short:

if Donald Trump is a problem, the problem is just as much not Donald Trump

so here we are today, with our childish Caligula* now 71 years old:

This is what disappointed me most. https://t.co/toT3ms3sr1 pic.twitter.com/H9CHTFQgaR
— A Black Populist (@briebriejoy) September 20, 2017

* h/t John le Carré; see also the post John le Carré: CBC interview

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