The family holds mythic power—the source of all good, the defense against evil. It’s exalted as a sacred ideal, which promises roots, blood relations, future generations. It ties each individual life to its fate, imprinting it genetically, biochemically, and psychologically with blessings and curses. To imagine life without family is to imagine
... See moreSteven Wolf • Romancing the Shadow
We remain a society obsessed with individual achievement. We equate success with elevation: “Climbing the ladder”, “Scaling my Everest”, “Being on top of the world”. Fatherhood is changing you. But if you step back, you’ll see it's changing all of us together. What might happen to a group of dads who realise they could help change each other? What
... See more“When we all eat dinner together, I am sometimes almost about to cry. I get so touched – I am so proud of our children.”
Skall Letter No. 50 - Karstad Family
Alex Dobrenko`, writer of Both Are True , writes from a place of honesty and vulnerability, and has some of the most honest takes on being a father that found me when I needed it most. I think his vulnerability is a gift—a place that allows other men, men like me, to lean more and more into the parts of ourselves that make us human—the part that... See more
For the Love of Fatherhood with Alex Dobrenko`
In the three years of TNF, we’ve covered all kinds of topics and I’ve spent a long time wondering exactly this is. I think there’s something special happening here: a group of dads that have congregated to redefine what fatherhood means for them, and to perhaps contribute towards a shift in the wider definition too. But the core of what this might... See more