What Dad Taught Me
by Matthew Alexander Sloane In considering how to be a good father, I’d have to speak from no experience, because I don’t yet have children. Even if I’ve cultivated a sort of “inner-father” to myself after leaving home. So, in honor of Father’s Day, I want to share what I learned from my father that I choose to emulate—today and in anticipation of having children of my own. Here’s the top 10 of what I say to myself… thanks to my...
October Poem: #1 for DAD
by Qutbuddin Loren Ruh Smith Hey! Dad! How long’s it been? How long’s it been since we’ve talked? Huh! How long? And there’s more distance between us now, than there is time, isn’t there? Dad? Dad? Can you hear me? We never did talk much did we? Dad? Oh yes! In my 40th year, on that hillside we reached out to one another you came from over there I from my meditation we crossed the void in mutual...
Building Gift Community: An Exciting Learning Opportunity
Do you feel you have done your “inner work”? Are you ready to explore the DEEPER challenges of building a new kind of cultural community? Do you seek a ‘fresh approach’ to collaboration between men and women to build the support base needed for taking action to change the world? Here’s a Great Place to Start… Bill Kauth, one of the co-founders of the ManKind Project will, with Zoe Alowan, be holding...
Fathers and Sons: a Poem
by Don Waxman every son who struggles for acceptance from his father will become the father who struggles to accept his son when men gather, each becomes this son, and each becomes the father to this son, and for those who never had a father, or who had several, the path is the same, father and son are two faces of the same coin, the price you pay in suffering and love to become the man you are August 29, 2007 Don Waxman, Licensed...
For Julian – 20 Things I Wish I’d Known at Age Sixteen
As Father’s Day approaches, those of us who are fathers may remember advice we gave as a parent. All of us may remember what advice we got from our own dads. Some of us may also recall pieces of advice we wish we’d paid more attention to at the time. Dr. Charles Maclean sends us this ‘wisdom list’ that he wishes in retrospect he’d heard and followed some years ago, which he dedicates to a neighbor boy who...
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