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The Father of Men’s Work: Robert Bly – a new film

Sometimes a man can live his life on the borders and in the margins, camp out in purgatory, know the territory of thresholds and sing his song among strangenesses

Simon Heathcote
Aug 02, 2016
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‘Creation and destruction, I am dancing for them both.’ Rumi

Sometimes a man can live his life on the borders and in the margins, camp out in purgatory, know the territory of thresholds and sing his song among strangenesses. Sometimes, living feels like dying and dying feels like living.

Occasionally, one becomes the other. But more of that later.

For now,…

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