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Book of the Month... JANUARY 2002 |
by Terry Jones
"In a society where father-hunger is of epidemic proportions and where retirement is commonly viewed as self-indulgent withdrawal, Terry Jones' vision of eldership is enormously important. Drawing on the rich history of eldership in other ages and cultures, Jones calls men to an egalitarian, non-patriarchal "mature masculinity" which is life-giving not only to men but also to women, children and the planet."
James B. Nelson
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Columns and Articles... |
SPECIAL GUEST ARTICLE... by Terry Jones
Elders Not Elderly
There are three ways to be an older person. Most are just folks who are pretty much the same as they were when they were young. Then there are the elderly. And others tap the archetypal elder energy within and express "eldership". It is important to reconsider the word elderly by contrasting it to the more ancient word, elder.
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GUEST ARTICLE... by Glenn J. Sacks
Prisoners in Their Own Homes: Male Victims of Elder Abuse
Thomas Berrigan never dreamed he'd reach retirement age and end up being a prisoner in his own home. Most of his possessions have been either stolen or vandalized, his trailer home has been burglarized repeatedly, and he is afraid to leave in the morning and to return home at night. He is desperate to move away but can't afford it.
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COYOTE... monthly column by Dick Prosapio
Tending the Fires
My mother and father's relationship was chaotic in its early stages, that would be in my teens and twenties. But in the last fifteen or twenty years of their time together, my mother seemed to mellow and my father grew more attentive so that they did in fact come to resemble what I wished for them in my fantasy of a classic Currier and Ives Christmas card. You know, the lights in the windows of home casting reflections on the snow at night. A Christmas tree sparkling in a corner, a fire in the hearth, a warm place to come home to. It did, in fact, become that in the years before my fathers death.
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THE NEW INTIMACY... monthly column by Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James Sniechowski, Ph.D.
The Unexpected Spiritual Teachers of Real Life Love
Over the past fourteen years, while providing thousands of workshops on relationship skills and gender reconciliation for both couples and singles, scores of people have asked us, "Why does love have to be so hard? I've been in therapy and read the books, but I keep having the same problems."
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JEFF'S LIFE... monthly column by Jeff Stimpson
Sheet Surrender
Crib to bed is a leap, one of the broadest. It suddenly seems to me that parents talk about it only sentimentally. They say it seems like yesterday that they rocked their newborn to sleep in his cradle by their bedside at home. When Alex was a week old he lived in a plastic box with a hospital vent down his throat. That doesn't seem like yesterday, though I can still see the box and the vent. When did that thin infant crawl from there and suddenly need a bed?
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