The power of listening is that it creates bonds of love and ultimately, goodness.
All in Reflections
The path to unexpected joy runs through a calm and peaceful mind.
Life can transform us from selfish into something more gracious - if we let it.
For sure, every person is capable of terrible things. But we, as men, don’t have to believe the delusion that we were born with a monster inside us. We have to stop believing that. We can build our identity as men around the parts of us that are most good.
If listening is the key to love, relationships, and trust, choosing to show up is the key to listening.
Memories decay quickly, instantly. And that makes being present, telling stories, and taking photographs so important. We have to protect the shards we have.
My dream about light is making it, sharing it, and all of us finding a way home.
Don’t waste the magic of Saturday mornings with work.
The two strategies - providing special attention and treating everyone consistently well - need to be in tension.
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.
Radha was never born or conceived. Yet, I know she is my sister. I hope our sons realize the gravity of the gift - brotherhood - they have.
When we took Apollo to his final visit, the Veterinarian disarmed me with her compassion.
Bo, Myles, and Emmett - if you ever find this remember that you are not here to justify us as parents. Remember to love each other. And remember our prayers for you.
We all try to avoid unpopularity because it’s terrible. And so we have this big, consequential, choice: do we try to become popular by being aggressive or will be choose some other way?
We are all on a journey. We are all living out our own memoir, in a way. For our journey to become that of a hero, we must face our fears and conquer them. For me, that means confronting and conquering loneliness.
Every generation has to take it’s turn and lead. For millennials, our time is nearly here. How will our grandchildren remember us?
Exploring space has expanded what we believe about the universe and ourselves. The James Webb Space Telescope could change everything that follows.
Our Christmas Tree is our life story, our histories intertwined with the branches and lights. It is the only time machine I know of that actually works - drawing me into memories and stories of a different time and place. This to me, is magic.
I want to get out of this self-perpetuating cycle of men being held to a low standard of parenting.