A year ago I was initiated into Masonic Lodge # 34 in Spokane, Washington.
My life at my age has been full of new experience. That experience comes from exposure to a society not steeped in formalized religion upon which performance, business and a constant spiritual sauntering across a never ending public stage is no longer part and parcel of what it means to be spiritual, just and upright.
“In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building an emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.”
― Robert Bly, Iron John: A Book About Men
I seem to be learning by leaps and bounds, taught by men older than me, my age and younger than me. I have found a society that does not dwell on conversations in god-talk, or about trucks, girls, hunting, drinking and sports as the only thing honorable men can do.
Tis honorable to strive for and try to be something larger.
Curmudgeon at Work 