“The longer we live,
The more of your presence
We find, laid down,
Weave upon weave
Within our lives.”
I am honoring all the fathers, living and deceased, today. In our culture, father relationships can come with a lot of complexity, impacted by war and trauma that have a direct bearing on our own experience of growing up. We also bear their gifts that guide us in raising our own children.
In 2012, I had the privilege of co-faciliitating a workshop with Joanna Macy called Male Mysteries in the Great Turning. It was the second workshop Joanna offered with men only. We went deep into the complexity of male-male relationships, especially father-son dynamics. As a tribute to our time together at the workshop, I put the following video together.