Thanksgiving and Carving the Bird
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. Family. Friends. Football. Food. All the traditions. In my family, if you were
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Learning to Cry (Part 2)
Releasing those emotions and pent up energy felt immediately cathartic, like drawing poison from a wound. The lesson was not lost on me. In fact, I cried for the better part of the next year. It was a challenging year but the rewards were equal to the immense difficulty. I learned to experience emotions, instead of burying them, and I felt the value of tears.
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Midlife: A New Mode of Being
I was feeling utterly aimless and frustrated. I didn’t want to replace old goals with new ones; it made me feel like a hamster on the wheel. Yet it was familiar; a mode of existence strongly imprinted in my mind; set goals and strive to achieve them. I didn’t know how else to live, but I was simultaneously annoyed by the seemingly inherent dissatisfaction that accompanied this mode of being.
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Learning to Cry (Part 1)
Masculinity exists on a sliding scale. It’s not definite, it constantly fluctuates from moment to moment. If one of those moments afforded me to tip the scales toward masculinity, establishing my non-crying credentials would definitely have done the trick. Keep in mind, I was never a macho man and never felt the need to amplify those bona fides. However, everyone is different; a comfortable sense of self established by varying degrees of masculine validation.
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