A tribute to Bill Boal: Reframe your fear
You can change the way you think and respond to life. You can start to drop the old same old stories and write your own script about how you want to live and who you really are. The best way I know to change your life is to change your vision of what you’d like life to be.
Exploring our life changes
Dave Long spent his early years in management consulting and advertising before starting a successful Milwaukee manufacturing business in 1989. He’s been drawing cartoons and writing for publications since the 1980s. Married for 25 years, he has two children and resides in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. – is a deeply personal issue that everyone decides for himself. Sometimes the price is high, sometimes low. But this is not very...
MKP opens 2009 Chairman’s Campaign
The ManKind Project this week announced the launch of the 2009 Chairman’s Campaign, the annual drive to raise funds to support the activities of the nonprofit international organization for men. In years past, this campaign was kept within the confines of the MKP community. As part of MKPs commitment to transparency, the campaign this year is being announced publicly through such open venues as the Journal. Anyone interested in...
Uniting the worlds of technology and spirit
by Steven Vedro I have always loved communications technology. As a child, I sat content for hours in front of the big short-wave set in my uncle’s living room, searching for voices from far away. As a ten-year-old, I learned Morse code. As a teenager I operated a pirate radio station, regularly ruining the neighborhood TV reception whenever I started my home-brew broadcasts. In college, I spent most of my time at the campus FM...
On the edge of suicide
by Christopher St. John I was in so much despair that the only thing left for me to do was take my life. Seems like a lifetime ago. At the tender age of twenty three, I was at the end of my rope with no way out. After many cries of help through my self-destructive behavior, almost everyone in my circle had given up on me. I was certain everyone would be better off without me. Why had my life turned into crap? I had a suicide plan. I...
Into the wild
by Johnny Fontaine During the waning days of summer last year, I was leaving my church’s social ministry office after a few hours of volunteer work. I stood by the front door, looking at the fingerprints smudged across the glass, distracted by the sounds of people talking throughout the lobby. My eyes noticed a book on a giveaway table, the cover depicting a man running along a great ledge of rocks high on a mountaintop. I read its...
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