Comments on: Splitting Wood http://goodmenfoundation.org/blog/2009/12/splitting-wood/ Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:23:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Zden?k Rackiewicz http://goodmenfoundation.org/blog/2009/12/splitting-wood/comment-page-1/#comment-1615 Zden?k Rackiewicz Tue, 12 Jan 2010 07:26:21 +0000 http://www.goodmenbook.org/blog/?p=2610#comment-1615 Look to me page <a href="http://rotacnistipacka.sweb.cz/" target="_blank">http://rotacnistipacka.sweb.cz/</a> Look to me page http://rotacnistipacka.sweb.cz/

]]> By: Mike Austin http://goodmenfoundation.org/blog/2009/12/splitting-wood/comment-page-1/#comment-1344 Mike Austin Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:25:40 +0000 http://www.goodmenbook.org/blog/?p=2610#comment-1344 Joe, I will take a look at your work this weekend! Maybe an interview on my radio show, "Radio Dad with Mike Austin". Thanks for the headsup. Mike Joe,

I will take a look at your work this weekend! Maybe an interview on my radio show, "Radio Dad with Mike Austin". Thanks for the headsup.

Mike

]]> By: joe shrode http://goodmenfoundation.org/blog/2009/12/splitting-wood/comment-page-1/#comment-1327 joe shrode Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:38:48 +0000 http://www.goodmenbook.org/blog/?p=2610#comment-1327 Mike, I have a manuscript called "Between the Lines: A Father, A Son, and America's Pastime." It has been picked up by an agent who will begin pitching to publishers in late January. I recently had a guest blog posted on the Good Men Project site that featured pieces of a few of the short stories. There will be over 200 short stories about the relationships established in a baseball setting between adults and kids...coaches and players...fathers and sons. You can access 15 or so of those stories at <a href="http://www.btlfatherson.blogspot.com" target="_blank">www.btlfatherson.blogspot.com</a> I would be honored if you would take a look at them and give me your feedback. I'd be happy to send you more of the manuscript if you're interested Mike, I have a manuscript called "Between the Lines: A Father, A Son, and America's Pastime." It has been picked up by an agent who will begin pitching to publishers in late January. I recently had a guest blog posted on the Good Men Project site that featured pieces of a few of the short stories. There will be over 200 short stories about the relationships established in a baseball setting between adults and kids…coaches and players…fathers and sons. You can access 15 or so of those stories at http://www.btlfatherson.blogspot.com

I would be honored if you would take a look at them and give me your feedback. I'd be happy to send you more of the manuscript if you're interested

]]> By: joe shrode http://goodmenfoundation.org/blog/2009/12/splitting-wood/comment-page-1/#comment-1326 joe shrode Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:38:28 +0000 http://www.goodmenbook.org/blog/?p=2610#comment-1326 Splitting wood is something I loved to do as well. I used to live in a house in the woods with two fireplaces and two woodburners. I would put on my favorite man clothes, drive my $500 truck to the bottom of the hill, split wood with a maul and sledge, then load it up and bring it to the house. The saying is true that he who splits his own wood warms himself twice. This ritual allowed me to both be physical, and provide for my family. When my son was born, we moved to a subdivision where it would be safer and there would be other kids. I moved to a house on a cul de sac in a subdivision. There was a fireplace with a gas insert. In that respect, I felt emasculated. Now that he's 8, I make sure I include him in my "big stong worker guy" chores. Splitting wood is something I loved to do as well. I used to live in a house in the woods with two fireplaces and two woodburners. I would put on my favorite man clothes, drive my $500 truck to the bottom of the hill, split wood with a maul and sledge, then load it up and bring it to the house. The saying is true that he who splits his own wood warms himself twice.

This ritual allowed me to both be physical, and provide for my family.

When my son was born, we moved to a subdivision where it would be safer and there would be other kids. I moved to a house on a cul de sac in a subdivision. There was a fireplace with a gas insert. In that respect, I felt emasculated. Now that he's 8, I make sure I include him in my "big stong worker guy" chores.

]]> By: Joe Shrode http://goodmenfoundation.org/blog/2009/12/splitting-wood/comment-page-1/#comment-1325 Joe Shrode Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:37:47 +0000 http://www.goodmenbook.org/blog/?p=2610#comment-1325 (I'm going to have to post my message in three comments) Thanks for the story. I think it goes back to my feeling that society is evolving faster than our physcial bodies. That is a problem men deal with. We no longer need to be bigger, stronger, and faster to feed and protect. Yet, we're still in these same bodies that were designed for that purpose. Since boys are all too rarely taught how to be a responsible man - the tribal rite of passage - in too many cases the outlet is violence toward others. Though my work with the Indiana Youth Institute, I have been involved in a regional responsible fatherhood coalition. I see firsthand that these destructive behaviors fill up our jails and prisons, and wreck families. We need to know that it okay to be masculine, if done in productive way. (I'm going to have to post my message in three comments)

Thanks for the story. I think it goes back to my feeling that society is evolving faster than our physcial bodies. That is a problem men deal with. We no longer need to be bigger, stronger, and faster to feed and protect. Yet, we're still in these same bodies that were designed for that purpose. Since boys are all too rarely taught how to be a responsible man – the tribal rite of passage – in too many cases the outlet is violence toward others.

Though my work with the Indiana Youth Institute, I have been involved in a regional responsible fatherhood coalition. I see firsthand that these destructive behaviors fill up our jails and prisons, and wreck families. We need to know that it okay to be masculine, if done in productive way.

]]> By: @STRONGFathersME http://goodmenfoundation.org/blog/2009/12/splitting-wood/comment-page-1/#comment-1323 @STRONGFathersME Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:10:25 +0000 http://www.goodmenbook.org/blog/?p=2610#comment-1323 I never split wood with my dad, but learned how from my Great-Uncle Don when I visited him one fal in VT. It was one of those moments that stayed with me. I valued the chance to bond with one of the men in my family (I did not grow up with my dad), it was a skill I didn't need to use until almost 30 years later, but knew how to do it when I needed to, it was a productive release of male energy - hard work for a good reason! Thanks for giving me a chance to remember that warm fall afternoon in Vermont. I never split wood with my dad, but learned how from my Great-Uncle Don when I visited him one fal in VT. It was one of those moments that stayed with me. I valued the chance to bond with one of the men in my family (I did not grow up with my dad), it was a skill I didn't need to use until almost 30 years later, but knew how to do it when I needed to, it was a productive release of male energy – hard work for a good reason!

Thanks for giving me a chance to remember that warm fall afternoon in Vermont.

]]> By: sjpetteruti http://goodmenfoundation.org/blog/2009/12/splitting-wood/comment-page-1/#comment-1322 sjpetteruti Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:16:01 +0000 http://www.goodmenbook.org/blog/?p=2610#comment-1322 I have many similar memories with my own father. Even though I am now grown, I still look back on those times watching him split logs that I couldn't as a time when I was so proud he was my dad. A role that I hope I one day take in the eyes of my own children I have many similar memories with my own father. Even though I am now grown, I still look back on those times watching him split logs that I couldn't as a time when I was so proud he was my dad. A role that I hope I one day take in the eyes of my own children

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