Sharpening Knives
Butchery in Juba, South SudanA Saturday morning. Just after sunrise. It promises to be a hot day. Another hot day. I hear a man sharpening his knifes. It reminds me of my days as an adolescent. Being a...
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Silence and SpeakingAhum. Again: ahum. (Sound of man clearing his throat.) A deep breath. A flexing of vocal cords. “It has been some time back,” he said. Swallows. Clearly not used to speaking in...
View ArticlePills, potions, psyche and poetry
The fiery heat of depressionWe live in material days. Material and mechanical. We are told everything can be softened or even eliminated. In our day and age we can live life without too much suffering....
View ArticleBuilding “Spiritual Muscle”
Unlocking Male SpiritualityA friend posed an interesting question, privately on Facebook. She asked, “Tell me, is it easier for women to grow and mature during midlife? If so, why do most men resist...
View ArticleNumber Crunching
Life needs to be simple. Facts need to be black and white, otherwise the illusion of control over existence might erode. And the more information is at hand, the simpler that information needs to be....
View ArticleReinventing a man; Part 1
One step is the first“So, who do you now want to be?” He asked it with a grand smile. Over three years ago. I had just received news that my contract was going to be cut short, and I’d be without...
View ArticleReinventing a man; Part 2
© Aernout ZevenbergenJoseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey sounds like a fairytale. Often in fairytales, there’s a greater cause out there, threatening the future of a village, a tribe, a kingdom. A cause...
View ArticleArt & Self-expression
The Myths We LiveThomas Moore (best-selling author of “Care of the Soul”) tweeted something fascinating, recently: “The purpose of art is not self-expression but presentation of the invisibles, the...
View ArticleReinventing a man; Part 3
Dance of Death“It would, eventually, become, indeed, a dance with death.” That is, come to think of it, quite a statement… How can I write a sequel worthy of such a cliff hanger? There is a horrible...
View ArticleMen and The Horror Of Rape: Patriarchy
Patriarchy in AfricaMost will know, but a reminder still. An Indian student drives back from a movie with her friend, on a bus. She gets raped, brutally molested and thrown out of the moving vehicle in...
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