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Podcast: Become Good Soil
Episode: 077: Initiation, with Nick Carlile
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I haven't made all A's in the art of living. But I give a damn. And I'll take an experienced C over an ignorant A any day.
– Matthew McConaughey, GreenlightsÂ
In Backpacking with the Saints, Belden Lane captures a fundamental mystery of masculine initiation:
“What does [a man] do when there’s nothing he can do, when there’s no audience to applaud his performance, when he faces a cold, silent indifference, if not hostility? His world falls to pieces. Th...