The Elder Within: The Source of Mature
Masculinity
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
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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Archive
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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