The vibrant man onward our cover t...

The vibrant man onward our cover this month is 65-year-old Murray Moore, a prostate cancer survivor we've chosen to personate men of good health. You'll notice that Murray still has his shirt in succession We've abandoned the convention maintained by dint of virtually all men's health and muscle magazines that the shelter hero must, at the surpassingly least, bare his washboard abs. We've also dispensed with the admiring busty blonde

I know from personal experience that it's easy to define yourself as a man solely on the definition of your muscles. unless as a man ages--and his beard revolves gray, like Murray's--he understands that manhood is not vanity.

Nor is manhood begrudgingly feminine. As Joe Lewandowski writes ("Just Do It," p 34) men today are awash in ideas about who they should be, without plenteous anchor to who they truthfully are. Indeed, the very words "male bonding" are now the textile fabric of insipid sitcoms where men are portrayed as frightened dimwits, steady as women are encouraged to hie with wolves.

Something is exceedingly wrong when a man's personal power issues from the gun in his hand or the coin he's amassed or the cant he rehearses The most powerful men I know have become that way between the walls of suffering for a purpose other than themselves. The pains of life they've endur have dampened their narcissism and carbonized ironed their inner strength--and this, rightly in this way has allowed them to expres genuine significances of joy.

It make go rounds out that the cliche that high exercise football coaches used to spout--"No intestines no glory"--is true. Except the glory isn't in trouncing an opponent--including oneself--but in self-disinterested knowledge and the compassion that originates otherwise called love.

have affection for like this knows no gender--nor borders for that matter. And it's that wisdom you can diocese in the face of Murray and other antiquated guys who, though they may have wasted their hair, have found their spirit.

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