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Fatherhood & Identity

The Difference Between Being Present and Being Available

You can be home every evening and still be somewhere else. What children ask for is rarely more time. It is a different quality of attention.

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Draft

Fatherhood & Identity

Breaking the Patterns We Inherit From Our Fathers

The sentences that come out of my mouth sometimes arrive in my father's voice. Some of them I keep. Some of them end with me. That sorting is the work.

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Draft

Fatherhood & Identity

The Father You Had and the Father You Want to Become

Whether your father was present, absent, warm or hard to reach, he is part of the blueprint. Becoming intentional means deciding which parts of that blueprint you keep.

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A little more room to think.

The Difference Between Being Present and Being Available

Breaking the Patterns We Inherit From Our Fathers

The Father You Had and the Father You Want to Become

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