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Reflections on Witnessing Abuse

A week or so ago, I had a very unpleasant encounter at work. A family came in: parents, a teenage daughter, and a son who was about ten or twelve years old. The son asked a mildly dumb question – one that I have had to answer from adults several times over the years, but dumb regardless. And then something happened that I did not expect. These parents absolutely shredded this kid. They made it…

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How to be a Self

This is a difficult one. Because it’s a question that I don’t have an answer to. I’m still exploring it, and I probably will be for most of my life. Let’s set the stage: The other men at my job decided to engage in something very basic and masculine – find out who could lift the most of something that was very awkward and heavy. When I discovered this impromptu contest, I loudly proclaimed that…

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