Axial Grease Man
by Walter Stewart Mom needed help raising ten children You took us on jobs where Men brought water up from the earth They laughed and cussed at Each other in the Texas heat Lumbering tools bent deep Sweaty axial grease men Who shaped pipe, rope, Wrenches and steel Into surgeon’s wands Coaxing the nectar upward Men who long knew The value of Aqua Dulce Before it was bottled up Back when water and childrem flowed free Men who knew how...
Coming to terms with an absence of elders
by Rick Belden I’ve been thinking recently about the deficiency of appropriate, effective male mentoring in my life and how it’s affected me. I’m 52 and it’s still affecting me, just as it’s affected me at every stage of my life. There’s a huge hole in my life where my father should have been (and still should be), but as big as that hole is, it’s merely the center of a much larger hole, the product of a male culture that is woefully...
Father’s Day Open Post
For Father’s Day 2011 – you are invited to share from the heart about what comes up when you reflect on the Father, the Dad, the Sovereign energy in your life. What are you ready to bless about your Dad? What will you bless about yourself? What are you ready to commit to in your fathering, or in your modeling of the healthy sovereign? Have a story or a poem to share? Share it here! At the ManKind Project, we help Dads be...
The Little Boy Inside
by Paul Rogers The little Boy Inside, Holds his head in shame, The little Boy, Believes he is to blame, The little Boy Inside, Carries the weight of wounds, that last, The little Boy, Has not healed, from time past, The little Boy Inside, Lives with terror, lives with fear, The little Boy, Has No Mother close, No Father near, The Little Boy Inside, No one to hold, No one to ease his pain, The little Boy, Love’s lack, he feels...
Involving Fathers (How we do it in Canada)
I am encouraged by what I perceive to be more involvement between of men with their children.. .At the same time, I recognize how hard it can be for some of us to be involved in our children’s lives in a meaningful way
Moving from Caveman Procreator to Caring Dad: The Father Myth
in Michael Chabon’s Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son by Eric Cravey Numerous studies conducted over different decades illustrate that the passage of time is the best cure for changing or re-shaping long-held public perceptions, which are sometimes referred to as the myth of what a culture believes is true. In literature, myth takes a given perception of human beings and makes them concrete...
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