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Rick and Dick Hoyt: Yes You Can!

January 30, 2013 By Kathryn DeHoyos Leave a Comment

This is the amazing and inspiring story of Dick Hoyt and his son Rick, otherwise known as “Team Hoyt”.

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The Circle of Life

January 21, 2013 By Jeff Swain 2 Comments

The Beatles, The Bible, and the Sanskrit word for bliss: Jeff Swain explains how by following our bliss, we find our purpose.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Man on the Run, The Good Life Tagged With: anthropology, Beat poets, bliss, circles, classics, Clifford Geertz, consciousness, cultural anthropologists, Culture, death, Ecclesiastes, finding yourself, flow, how to win at life, identity, Joseph Campbell, Journey, joy, Kurt Vonnegut, life, long distance running, marathons, Meaning of Life, mythology, poetry, presence, Rapture, rebirth, runner's high, running, self-love, Sex and Relationships, subconscious, symbols, the beatles, The Bible

Never Stop Living

December 27, 2012 By Jeff Swain 3 Comments

Does self-image ultimately determine how the body will perform?

Filed Under: Featured Content, Health, Psych, & Addiction, Man on the Run, The Good Life Tagged With: adventure, aging, anxiety, artists, athletes, beauty, confidence, courage, depression, Ed Whitlock, endurance, flow, Freud, General Patton, goals, Greek mythology, health, heroes, inventors, Les Brown, Ludmilla Enquist, marathons, Maxwell Maltz, medicine, mental health, mental illness, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, neurosis, overcoming adversity, plastic surgery, positive psychology, positive visualization, preventative care, preventative medicine, Psyche and Cupid, psycho-cybernetics, psychoanalysis, psychology, recovering from loss, running, self image, senior athletes, Sex and Relationships, soul, success, trauma, trials, venus, Walt Whitman, winning

Cockfighters and Poets

December 10, 2012 By Jeff Swain 3 Comments

What the cockfighter and the artist have in common is what they put on the line.

Filed Under: Man on the Run, The Good Life Tagged With: animal cruelty, anthropology, artistic process, artists, Bali, Balinese cockfighting, Catharsis, character, Clifford Geertz, cockfighting, cockfights, courage, creating art, creation., cultural anthropology, Culture, desire, destiny, dueling, fate, Greek myth, Greek plays, Greek tragedy, Herbert Miller, hero, heroic journey, heroism, identity, integrity, Joseph Campbell, manhood, manhood rites, marathons, masculinity, Meaning of Life, passion, perception, plays, power of myth, purpose, quarter-life crisis, running, sexuality, sport, strength, The Interpretation of Cultures, The Spirit of Tragedy, tragedy, victory, violence, virility

Meteor

July 6, 2012 By Sean Carney 16 Comments

Arguments against making the commitments of male adulthood can be boiled down to one word: Meteor. Sean Carney explains.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Men Are Funny, Quarter-Life Crisis, The Good Life Tagged With: 401(k), avoidance tactics, Discovery Channel, dogs, fatherhood, floods, Home Improvement, home ownership, Jumanji, Lowe's, marathons, marriage, men are funny, meteors, murderers, natural disasters, quarter-life crisis, stampedes, The Good Life, The Joneses

The Idol I Remember, The Man I Never Knew

June 17, 2012 By Collin Slattery 1 Comment

One word does not do justice to what a father does.

Filed Under: Cancer, Father's Day, Father's Day 2012, Featured Content, The Good Life Tagged With: basketball, bone marrow transplant, cancer, Chicago, Father's Day, fathers, heroes, marathons, running, sons, The Good Life

GoodCall: Bachelor Marathons, LeBron (Again?), and More

September 30, 2011 By Brandon Sneed Leave a Comment

Brandon Sneed’s weekly roundup where sports and goodness collide.

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: Brandon Sneed, GoodCall, Jamie Moyer, Jeff Pearlman, LeBron, marathons, sports, The Bachelor, Walter Payton

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50 Years Ago Today: ‘Letter From Birmingham Jail’

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

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An AIDS activist, a Christian missionary, a wilderness first responder, and a revolutionary rock star… Premium Members talk to four men who’ve made it their lives’ work to help other people, and how any of us can be prepared to take action in a crisis.

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A Hug for a Haircut

Every Wednesday in Hartford’s Bushnell Park, a barber sets up shop to give free haircuts to anyone who wants one—the homeless to longtime clients all pay the same fee: one hug.