The young friend-making muscle is strong. Yet in time it may
shrivel. Now, it must be rebuilt.
Friends come in all sizes but here they are tagged, pegged, and
cataloged. And which of these, we are asked, do you want to be?
In our first episode the conversation gets personal. We talk openly of the burdens men carry. There are moments of honesty and men calling each other out — as only trusted men can.Â
How much of what you’re carrying actually belongs to you? How long will you carry it alone?Â
This conversation may hit closer to home than you expect.
If we can’t look at thirty-seven hundred dollars standing between a brother and his legal defense, in a community of five hundred men, and find it within ourselves to cover that gap with ten dollars each, then the Greatness conversation is theoretical.
A decades-long friendship began on the diamond…
but through thick, and thin, it didn’t end there.
There comes a time to put down the acoustic and pick
up the stratocaster. For T.T.R., this is the time.
A sudden impulse, an intentional crash and burn. Who knows what motivated a yuong man on the verge of winning to deliberately chuck it? One person who wants to know is the man himself. Sixty years on, the search for an answer continues,.
If nothing else, few days of hard thinking in a whale’s belly gives a man perspective. If there’s one thing Jonah learned in there it’s this: you can run but you can’t hide from your responsibilities for long. The author, well, the author can relate.
Some grief can furnish a room. Others are too deep to even open the door to. For one man, it wasn’t grief alone didn’t drive him into hiding. It was the loving need of a concerned community to ask — over, and over, and over again. — “How is your wife?”
Twenty five years of summer sojourns on the Isle of Shoals, off the coast of Maine, rendered an ethos about the meaning and purpose of hiding as a means to either enlightenment or its antithesis.
Twenty five years of summer sojourns on the Isle of Shoals, off the coast of Maine, rendered an ethos about the meaning and purpose of hiding as a means to either enlightenment or its antithesis.
The MDI President muses on the value and meaning of caring. For loved ones. For their loved ones. For strangers. When caring for humanity, it seems, one’s own may be found in the process.
Most gifts, though heartfelt, end up on a shelf collecting dust. But thanks to modern tech and the passion of a songster-in-the-rough, music is emerging as the gift that keeps on singing.
Intentions have created a life of fitness, of showing up on time, and of being useful. But one critical intention hasn’t — yet — panned out. Will that intention yet pave the road to heaven? Or will it lead to…
When leaders allow themselves to lose touch with those they lead, they may cease to be leaders at all. They may, as the French politician Ledru-Rollin may have suggested, find themselves sayiing, “there go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.”
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