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Dan Chalykoff

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To build resilience requires the Stoic virtue of moderation. While no longer a current virtue it's contemporary equivalent is self-control or self-discipline. This blog describes how self-control is applied to danger and recovery.
Resilience is the ability to roll with the punches. Psychology is finding this to be a "buildable" virtue. This blog is the beginning of a series on building resilience. This blog focuses on acceptance of the things you can control and the things you can't control.
About the long history and virtuous utility of scheduling, even of "unimportant" events or tasks. A checked-off schedule feeds our sense of efficacy and self-control while providing quiet satisfaction.
Concerns a death I'd been dreading as it marks the passing of era. An era in which citizenship as stewardship was valued.
A remembrance of Lorne Charlton, a fellow student at Oakville Trafalgar High School during the 1970s.