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ManKind Project Partners with Men’s Health Network for Men’s Health
Men’s Health Month
The Men’s Health Network is national not-for-profit with global partners that does education and advocacy on many men’s health topics. Each year MHN works with multiple national organizations and the United States Congress to promote Men’s Health Week and Men’s Health Month. You can take action by Sponsoring a WEAR BLUE event in your Igroup, your men’s circle or in your community.
Five Friends, the Movie
Creating ‘Quality Male Relationships’ in an age of Bros
by Boysen Hodgson
Love ya, bro.
These words come easily for many men. Uncommitted words that put little at risk, words now offered between men who barely know one another. Words that Seth Rogen might self-consciously mutter as the summit of his capacity for relationship in a film like The Green Hornet (we’ll assume here that Seth knows better, and is simply playing characters who typify the man-child mentality being discussed these days in the New York Times). We’re a culture of ‘bros’. It’s what nice guys say to one another to create a sense of camaraderie in a world of men largely lacking in community. ‘Bros’ are symptomatic of a culture of shallow promises and mistrust, of persona over personal vulnerability.
Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day is a comedy far outside of the trodden path. The story of Bill Murray’s “Phil” and his journey to free himself from an eternity reliving the same day echoes the wisdom of the ages. It is with great pleasure that I bring you precisely this review before my well-deserved hiatus.
Headed for Punxsutawney
Phil is the weather man for a local Pittsburgh-based TV station. Now time has come for February 2nd again, and with that: Groundhog day in Punxsutawney. Phil despises the ritual that the common folk of the tiny Pennsylvanian village find so elating and he is not afraid to voice it.
On Collaborative Mission Work
By Stephen Simmer
For it is important that awake people be awake;
Or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
The signals we give, yes or no, or maybe should be clear;
The darkness around us is deep.
William Stafford
How to Lead with a Broken Heart
By Joseph DiCenso
I’m sitting in a circle of thirty-six women and men on the final morning of a three-day conference and I’m crying. Through my choked and wobbly voice I’m trying to name the ache I feel for the state of the world. My grief over the gap between what could be and what is. I speak of the beauty I see; of its growing poignancy the more it becomes threatened. The coral reefs, the pelagic fish. The species, peoples, cultures, wisdom–dying, disappeared. How it sometimes feels like I’m living a long goodbye.
MKP for Me; a poem
by Robert Jacober
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