There’s a great article in the Art of Manliness blog on how suburban life can destroy your manliness. In it the author argues:
“The danger that living in the suburbs is simply that there is no danger…it’s completely safe. Constant and complete control is a silent, but deadly killer.”
and:
“maybe the truest calling of man lies in [...]
I love this story in Steve Biddulph’s Manhood:
“Our system has one outstanding way of holding men in place – it’s called a mortgage. When you go for that vital interview at the bank you walk out with a a hundred thousand dollars. It’s a miracle, but something else happens, something they don’t tell you about. [...]
I’ve often cone across literature that suggests men don’t truly become men until they’re 35. In fact I read a lovely quote from Cezanne the other day who said, “Until the age of forty I lived a bohemian: I wasted my life. It was only later that I developed a taste for work.”
I find this [...]
Ok, here’s some things I reckon men want. I want to build on this list as time goes on, but it’s a quick start:
Feeling useful
Show me a happy man and I’ll show you a man who feels like they’re a useful part of society.
Future plans / forward momentum
We all want to feel like we’re moving [...]
“My daddy, he was just a stranger.
Lived in a hotel downtown.
When I was a kid, he was just somebody.
Somebody I’d see around.”
Bruce Springsteen, Long Time Coming, 2005.
My son is about to turn 18 months old. That’s a year and a half. It’s taken me about this long to start to get [...]