Fathered Five

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Life is nasty, brutish, and short, saith Thomas Hobbes. I’ve always suspected he’s right, but I’m so insulated by modern culture that the nature, red in tooth and claw, is safely outside my air-conditioned split level.
That is about to change. We’re going camping. For three days. We’ll have to catch and kill our own […]

Since posting about Abraham sacrificing Isaac, I’ve been thinking about how to help Boy 13 transition from boyhood to manhood. Tribal cultures do it with a great deal of ritual and fanfare, but we’ve lost something in modern society. Generally speaking, there’s no instruction, no training for boys on how to become men.
Oh, sure, […]

I’ve realized since becoming a parent that my dad did a lot of things with me that he didn’t necessarily want to do. Things like rabbit hunting in the desert and fishing at an overpriced trout farm. He did them because I liked them, and that’s a marvelous thing.
At the ball park recently, watching […]

[This post inspired by the creative folks at The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell]

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But behold, when Gadianton had found that Kishkumen did not return he feared lest that he should be destroyed; therefore he caused that his band should follow him. And they took their flight out of the land, by a secret […]