It had only to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles for no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to

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I took care of our son. I'm grateful for our time together. We were in a bubble and grew closer. We forgot about time outside of thirst and hunger, sunrise and sunset.

Once, our worldview embedded each of us within a world in which all the parts were intricately interconnected. Each of us could be at the centre of this multidimensional web of interconnections, “trapped,” in a sense, by our total dependence on all of the strands enfolding and infusing us, yet deriving the ultimate security of place and belonging.

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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