Groceries & Gratitude
Apr15

Groceries & Gratitude

  Yesterday, Alexander, Miranda and I spent the first part of the afternoon at the grocery store. Grocery shopping with young children (or at least my young children) is generally a frenetic experience. Little hands pull products off of the shelf, little feet push the shopping cart as if they’re operating under the influence, little […]

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Documenting Reconciliation in Kenya
Mar31

Documenting Reconciliation in Kenya

by Boysen Hodgson In 2007 Patrick Mureithi traveled to Rwanda with the opportunity to film a reconciliation process between perpetrators and victims of violence in the Rwandan genocide. The experience had a deep and lasting impact. He created a documentary film based on that experience called “ICYIZERE:hope” (see the preview below). “ICYIZERE:hope” trailer from Patrick Mureithi on Vimeo. Focusing on Kenya...

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What is That?
Mar20

What is That?

Sent to us by Eivind Skjellum, the Journal’s film editor. This needs no introduction. Eivind Skjellum is the founder of

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Watching Them Watch Me
Feb09

Watching Them Watch Me

Love is a golden vessel, containing, by its very nature, both joys and sorrows. The poignant reality of this human condition is beautifully shown in a recent memoir from the New York Times, sent to us by Alain Hunkins, The MKP Journal’s Corporate Leadership & Facilitation Contributing Editor. Anyone who has ever suffered the slow loss of a spouse or a parent will feel this moving story by Times writer Dean E. Murphy. It...

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Living the gift community – a 6 year old’s wisdom.

Andrei Armeanu is a New Warrior (a man who has completed the New Warrior Training Adventure sponsored by the ManKind Project). His daughter Sabina has an idea of the kind of world she wants to live in and the kind of person she wants to be in that world. The ManKind Project helps already awesome men like Andrei become even better fathers, partners and culture creators. I’m ready to live in Sabina’s world – and doing...

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Justin Hunt; ABSENT, a new documentary about Fatherhood
Dec15

Justin Hunt; ABSENT, a new documentary about Fatherhood

by Boysen Hodgson Target; this movie, as Justin Hunt says, is targeted to men. And often it is women who ‘get’ the film. Energy embodied; informational, emotional, invitational Empowering intent; To present a simple thesis … ‘the father is the first human being in a child’s life who either chooses them, or not …’ and the choice, intended or unintended, has consequences. Primary archetypes; the...

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