I stood all alone in a hall full of people. Many of whom I had known for a number of years. I watched people chatting, laughing. They were lining up, having their photo taken. Putting on smiles to make sure their ID cards weren’t horrible. They were wearing clothes that they wouldn’t wear in this … Continue reading A Man Belongs
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A Mindful Man
Perhaps this is the most predictable blog post of them all… well done, if you expected this one. But these days I try not to make predictions. I mean, they’re great if they work out - then you can say, “I told you so” - but they pretty much suck when they don’t. Predictions can … Continue reading A Mindful Man
A Man Looks Back
The past two years have been incredible. Like, incredible in the sense that if you had told me two years ago what I was about to experience, I wouldn’t have believed you. It has really been one wild ride, in pretty much every area of life. You probably already know this, if you have read … Continue reading A Man Looks Back
A Loving Man
When I was a kid, you’d be chatting about this celebrity or that and someone would pipe up and say, “oh, I don’t like him. He loves himself!” It was a mark of absolute arrogance if we said that someone loved themselves. But of course this wasn’t a reference to the particular celebrity, saying that … Continue reading A Loving Man
An Older Man
So, that’s it. If I’m not there yet, then I’m at least rapidly approaching middle age. I’m not really sure what I expected. I know I didn’t expect to feel older overnight. That would obviously be ridiculous. But maybe there’s something different about being forty than when I was still able to say I’m in … Continue reading An Older Man
