Love is out there waiting to fill us up.
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Days Like These: A Father’s Wish
I wish for another day where we celebrate at a table more crowded than the year before.
2023: The Year of ‘Not Helpless’
2023 taught me a powerful lesson: facing fears and owning up to my choices proves that, really, we're never helpless.
When we linger, we are showing love in the most honest of ways.
Our kids can be our role models as we try to rediscover play and the fun we lost.
Constantly being angry is what I find hardest about being a father.
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.
At work, we shouldn’t depend on our companies to find purpose and meaning for us. We have the capability to find it for ourselves.
To break the cycle, I must engage in self-purification that results in direct action.
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.
My father taught me how to figure it out. I realize this now. And so there’s nothing to be scared of.
As your father, I promise to love you unconditionally and help you become good people.
The greatest of all choices is choosing whether or not to be a good person.
What I need, desperately, is to be here.
The question of how to raise good children starts with figuring out how to be a good person myself.
There are men that are trying to reimagine what it means to be a man. As in, how to be a different and hopefully better kind of man.
And we are doing this without role models to draw from. We are breaking ground, and it is remarkable.
I don’t want to make noise about the sacrifices I’ve made, but I don’t want my sacrifices to be insulted by ungrateful children. I don’t want my children feel deep shame or know intense suffering, but I also want them to have opportunities to build inner strength. In some ways I need to tell stories about sacrifice, but in other ways that’s counterproductive.
What’s a parent to do?