A troubled kid- turned State Trooper and chess champ helps kids make the right moves. How? A declaration.
A blown opportunity offers a chance of redemption—and puffins—under
the midnight sun.
When being #2 just won’t do.
A bid to be the one chosen first ends
in ovations.
A stand for an organized life brings profound external change. No less profound, however, was the consonant internal transformation.
A Place just for MDI’s Men..
A win. A loss. A task taken on.
Whatever our men are up to,
this section is just for us.
A dad’s tales of derring-do. A son carrying on against the odds. One ethos sustained both: doing ‘the next thing.’
Early retirement became anworking obsession.
And yet, only nine years later,
Mai Tais, anyone?
He shall from time to time give to the Members Information of the State of the Organization, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.
Chris Christopher
Though finally achieving Region status, there is still enormous work to do. Atlas can reach men anywhere… and a glance at the headlines suggests Atlas had better get busy.
A Birthday Celebration is in order. Resting on laurels is not.
Dan Kempner
Response to a tragedy can take many forms. For one man — a chess champion, law-enrorcement officer, and formerly an at-risk youth — it set him in motion to teach others the game of chess and how to think ahead. Specifically, how to “think it out before you shoot it out.”
A blown opportunity leads to a second chance and a shot at redemption. The solution was courage. Taking a public stand, then following through.
Rinse and repeat, right? Wrong.
For years, a man played Avis to others’ Hertz. But one Friday night, having had enough, he threw down the gauntlet and made a Declaration: This time, I’m gonna be Number 1. And he was!
A man’s stand for an organized life leads to profound external change. But the true reveal, no less profound, was the consonant internal transformation.
A man does what’s needed by doing what’s next. The man died young and left a son to figure out how to fend for himself. He, too, did what was needed by doing what was next. Oh yes, and he and Rudolph are tight!
One man’s early reirement was that man’s financial education. No brokers need apply when books, bloggers, TV personalities and financial gurus abound. Sixteen years later came graduation day.
Doug’s Journey came into being as an idea. But the trails, way-stations, roadside shelters, and even the summits, are real. And they’re all laid out and available, as our Presidet details in his State of MDI address.
It’s day 2. You survived the wreck and the first night. But now, you’re getting peckish. There’s food aplenty in the lagoon but, to cook it you first have to catch it. By an amazing stroke of luck, your trusty new chisel washed ashore too…
Commitments made, and kept. Oaths taken, none broken. Goals set, goals met.
That’s how men become grown up.
But now? Maybe I’m just done.
When called to serve, the Dog Soldiers made bank – food bank, that is. They boxed and loaded thousands of pounds of foodstuffs and household supplies at the Atlanta Community Food Bank.
A rolicking, wide-ranging, hell-for-leather guide to leading rolicking, wide-ranging, hell-for-leather meetings. No Dewey decimal system need apply, unless it’s to search for Zen koans. Hold on to your hats, this is the go-for-broke version.
Eight years ago this month, Atlas, MDI’s virtual lifeline for far-flung men, was formed. Now, it has become its own virtual Region. So yes, Happy Birthday, Atlas, but the work? It has just begun.
Imaging a world where every man kept his oaths as though death would be his lot if he failed to keep them. You go ahead and imagine it…I can’t.
God knows there’s plenty to be serious about. A break is akways welcome and, despite the cynicism and sarcasm, our Comics aim to do just that!
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