We can’t just listen, even intently. We have to prove it.
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Parenting is an act of faith
My costliest mistake as a parent was trying to make my sons’ world more like mine.
How To Grow Our Hearts
Love is out there waiting to fill us up.
We must create important jobs
Everyone on the team deserves an opportunity to be respected.
Days Like These: A Father’s Wish
I wish for another day where we celebrate at a table more crowded than the year before.
Maybe I Should Just Shut Up
Reflecting on the struggles and revelations of parenting: sometimes the best thing we can do is just stay back and let our kids figure things out on their own.
Backyard Ball
“One more play! One more play!”
“I’m not going anywhere.”
How do we make a promise to be around, when we must contend with an unpredictable life?
Our kids can be our role models as we try to rediscover play and the fun we lost.
The keys are sleep and paying attention. So obvious, but so elusive.
I’m witnessing a brotherhood form. This is my deepest joy as a father.
To be held is to be loved.
My love needs to be big enough so that my sons never have to fight for it. It must be infinite.
To break the cycle, I must engage in self-purification that results in direct action.
Life can transform us from selfish into something more gracious - if we let it.
Taking responsibility and doing the right thing to help others is what defines a leader, celebrity doesn’t.
I had a profound realization on a morning walk, on a perfect fall day.
If listening is the key to love, relationships, and trust, choosing to show up is the key to listening.
I cannot break my sons’ innocence early by asking them to dance with my heaviest emotions.
What I need, desperately, is to be here.