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How A Thinker Vents

Yesterday I explored this idea that a feeler that vents (in the thinker/feeler spectrum) is attempting to cope using thinking language.  Though, I’m pretty far on the thinker side of this spectrum so I was trying to figure out what the equivalent style of venting is for me.  Venting has never been a helpful tool […]

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My Faith As My Art

I am not much of an artist in the traditional sense.  I can’t draw, paint, sing, play or perform.  I lean to the analytical side of the spectrum and spend a good amount of time reading and thinking. As I start to understand religion, faith, philosophy and those sorts of things, I’ve begun to see

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Corrie Colquhoun: A Eulogy

A poem I wrote the night before she died.  Below is a prayer and eulogy I wrote for the funeral today. Here is the MP3 file for the entire funeral. Sadness strikes the heart of many When a face that once forced dimples to grow into crevices Grows weary and broken And a voice that

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The Night She Said Goodbye

Naivety allows one to face into fate Each day comes and goes Why accept what you know to be true? Might as well believe in something else Peace comes through ignorance Each day comes and goes Anxiety comes through knowing That the unavoidable hasn’t happened yet Innocence precludes endings Each day comes and goes Soon

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Men’s Vulnerability Group And How I’m Learning About Vulnerability

Based on a few conversations with some great counselor friends, we at theStory have started a group which we call Men’s Vulnerability Group.  The idea for the group started because of the realization that community and relationships cannot grow unless there is mutual vulnerability.  Ideas like from Brene Brown in The Power of Vulnerability and Parker Palmer

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