Charlie Moss is an Assistant Editor at SPIN Magazine and penned a review of Director Brian Brightly’s 2025 film release The Wake, a fictional exploration of men and grief. Charlie and I connected following the article drop and in a subsequent discussion around the topic, found ourselves discussing male imagination, world building, stability, and play….
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We’ve explored how community begins with an inner capacity for connectedness, and how that capacity must be large enough to hold intensity without flinching. But this raises a new question: if community isn’t manufactured through desire or design, what actually sustains it? What keeps the connections alive across time and distance, through seasons of plenty…
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Listen to the companion Sparks + Embers episode for this Kindling feature article below. In a Gift Economy We Must Reconcile How Abundance Draws Us Together, While Transaction Separates The Economics of Abundance: Gift Circulation and Non-Transactional Exchange Part 1: The Gift Economy – When Giving Creates Relationship We live in a world that runs…
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This week we explore our own encounters with how traditional expectations both elevate and imprison, leading to breakdown before breakthrough. The conversation explores: “What expectations about manhood did you inherit that nobody taught you how to actually embody?” “When have you felt most trapped by the very roles that were supposed to give you strength…
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This week Tiffany and Tyler sit down with the author of Hold My Hand, Mama, A touching story that walks readers through the circle of life from a daughter’s first steps to her mother’s last and beyond. Gabrielle was the recipient of the Mom’s Choice Awards® Gold and shares her story with Goodpain and what…
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Jeremy and Tyler open Season 02 of Goodpain with an overarching discussion of masculinity, how they arrived at the topic and introduce the importance of Initiation Rites, and what happens in their absence. The discussion moves from Aboriginal Australia to sub-saharan Africa for wisdom involving of masculine energy. Ultimately, Jeremy & Tyler share their own…
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We’ve reduced civic duty to voting, but community emerges from deliberate cultivation of beliefs, attitudes, and rituals practiced between solitude and collective life. Community isn’t manufactured through programs or proximity. It emerges when we practice civic arts we’ve abandoned: endurance, gratitude, and fierce presence.
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The patterns that destroy community aren’t random failures or unfortunate side effects. They’re the logical result of certain assumptions about value, scale, efficiency, and human nature – assumptions so embedded in modern life that they’re nearly invisible. We’ve built systems that systematically undermine the very conditions that make community possible, all while telling ourselves we’re…
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Listen to the companion Sparks + Embers episode for this Kindling feature article below. A Problem Definition Framework for How WE Have Undermined Foundations of Community Introduction There’s a question we don’t ask often enough: Why do we come together in the first place? Not the practical reasons – to trade goods, to share resources,…
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In this final installment of the Apprenticeship Model for Leadership series, we talk about Generational Maintenance, synthesizing all domains for lifelong practice within a framework of intellectual humility and twenty-year thinking. We also introduce the model for our next series, the Northern Arapaho’s Four Hills of Life Movement. In this context we use the model…
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