If you received shame, or an injury like a whipping or beating, or an icy cold, unresponsive stare from a father’s silent face – as a child you probably went numb from the neck down. Any boy subjected to such abuse will try to disappear and will usually fly up into his head where he’ll […]
Reclaiming Our True Masculinity – The Father In A Hurry
…So I am proud only of those days that we pass in undivided tenderness, when you sit drawing, or making books, stapled with messages to the world… or coloring a man with fire coming out of his hair Or we sit at a table, with small tea carefully poured; so we pass our time together, […]
Reclaiming Our Masculinity
“On my father’s wedding day no one was there to hold him. Noble loneliness held him.” Robert Bly At a certain point in any boy’s life, his father should let him win, be right, be victorious. Whether the battle is physical or intellectual, it is symbolic for the boy who would become a man. Perhaps […]
Masculinity
Masculinity means so many different things depending on who you ask. In 1991 there was a meeting set up by Warren Farrell, one of the earliest pioneers in men’s issues, at his mountain retreat in California. A dozen or so of us so-called leaders of the Men’s Movement were invited to come and share our […]
Excerpt from best-selling book The Flying Boy: Healing the Wounded Man
The following is taken from my first best-selling book, The Flying Boy: Healing the Wounded Man. I thought it was timely to share this since I will be keynoting at two men’s events this month: Oct 19-21 The Bubba-Buddha Men’s Empowerment Weekend for Mentor*Discover*Inspire Organization (MDI) ~ LaFayette GA Oct 26-27 What Does Healthy Masculinity […]