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Four Times When I Smiled From my Heart
Every day try to find beauty in the mundane. ––– Courtesy of the author One: When my early morning wake up comes. My dog jumps up on the bed and puts his furry happy face right in mine. He whines a...
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Call for Submissions: Invest in the Environmental Conversation!
View image | gettyimages.com The environment section is growing and we need your views on nature. ––– Climate change is one of the most critical issues facing life on the planet Earth. We have jump...
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Call For Submissions: How Do You Keep Your Head Above Water?
We are living in rapidly changing times, unwritten social rules are constantly being challenged, structural discrimination is exposed more each day. ––– We face a daily flood of at times conflicting...
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The Man Might Kill Me, Could a Plate of Potatoes Save My Life?
View image | gettyimages.com — Can conflict be diffused by cultivating awareness of survival based fear? ––– Guatemala City, 18 Calle, behind the bus station. The man approached as I was getting some...
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Listen to the Good Men Project Values on Live Radio This Saturday Night
Saturday, The Good Men Project executive editors will be on live northern California radio. Listen or call in as they have the conversation no one else is having! — This Saturday, our executive...
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Where the Pavement Ends and Wisdom Begins
Embed from Getty Images When people live their lives moment by moment the ordinary can become extraordinary. ___ I live near the end of the road. I live along the margins of the mainstream. I have...
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Why Institutional Racism Deserves Your Discomfort
Embed from Getty Images Many white folks don’t understand the definition of institutional or systemic racism, and that’s got to change. — Institutional racism (also known as institutionalized racism)...
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I Love My Wife but I Don’t Need Her
Embed from Getty Images Our relationship is stronger because we know we can survive without each other. — My wife and I collectively taught high school for over 20 years. In that time we witnessed...
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God, Guns, and Guts: The Downfall of Modern Man
Embed from Getty Images Some of us use gods, guns and guts while the rest of us use our purchasing power to consume what’s left. ___ In the beginning man created gods. The perfect tool for power and...
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Clinton and Trump are Examples of a Country not Worth Saving
Embed from Getty Images Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will both be detrimental to our nation. ___ For those on the left who continue to perpetuate the very system that requires the injustices...
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6 Questions to Ask Children Concerning Their Education
Embed from Getty Images If we can begin to have some casual conversations about what we take for granted we can come to a place where we see life for the wonderment that it is. — The days of walking...
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Men in Debt: Is it Time to Chase a Different Carrot?
Embed from Getty Images What is required to liberate us from the absolute stronghold the debt narrative has over our industrial global culture? ––– Once upon a time there was a community that believed...
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Running Across the Grand Canyon is a Lesson in Humility
The Grand Canyon is not there to entertain us… Apparently I was wrong. ___ On May 30, 2016 at 6:22am I dipped into the Grand Canyon from the more remote North Rim. I have been to the canyon 13 times...
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Dear Liberals, We Need to Talk
Embed from Getty Images Once we understand our role, then can we begin to accept our responsibilities and move towards an existence where it’s not all about us. — I would like to interrupt your...
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We are Expendable
Darren Wilson helps prove justice is an illusion in one hand, and a tool of oppression in the other. ––– Yes, Ferguson is about race, but the events are important for us all. The reality of police...
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Oslo Man Rolls Coffee, Smiles, and Social Good
A Norwegian man has found a way to activate public space. He sees a future city where streets are not just for transport and cars. ––– Erlend Sjåvik is an urban planning student from Norway who is...
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Inside the Conversation: The Good Men Project Writers Group
A look inside the place where the conversation no one else is having happens. ___ One of the greatest gifts of the digital era is the ability to share ideas rapidly among a multitude of people. On our...
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Readers Become Leaders
If you dare to be the change, the change can become you. ––– “Most of us want to believe we can be the change, that being the change will support the change, but how many of people really believe it?...
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Spontaneous Heart Poem
Social Justice Editor Wilhelm Cortez offers some spontaneous thoughts on the heart. — Spontaneous Heart Poem Inspired by a comment thread *** Interested in submitting poetry to The Good Men Project?...
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Four Times When I Smiled From my Heart
Every day try to find beauty in the mundane. ––– Courtesy of the author One: When my early morning wake up comes. My dog jumps up on the bed and puts his furry happy face right in mine. He whines a...
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