Here’s what we posted on Discord after today’s walk in Central Park. Yes it was 19 degrees, which means we must be getting something of value out of walking cuz it is bloody cold. 🥶
Benjamin Trustman stated in Discord “(Our) Conversation about finding connections in a room full of ‘adults’ was an affirmation as to why I connected with this walk and the original prompt about its intent.”
Ben was telling me how sometimes he comes away from “adult” parties feeling like he had a lot of conversations but didn’t make any authentic connections. He’s not alone in feeling that way.
My reply in Discord: “Yeah, a remarkable thing. That we can want more in the way of deeper friendships and how the culture shies away from that. Glad we keep looking for it anyway. And here we are. I particularly like the part where we’re allowed to say *I don’t always want to talk about deep stuff,* I just don’t want there to be an unspoken prohibition against ever talking about it.”
If continuing to do Walking Talking Men on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with Mark Wiedmann and Benjamin Trustman has taught me anything, it’s that men who want friendship and community are not rare. There are a LOT of us. We just don’t have a simple intentional way of finding each other. Now we have eight men who have shown up. No small thing, that.
I started a walk, and bingo I have new friends a few blocks from my house. They all came to the walks saying, “I already knew I needed to do something about this.” so the intention to create connection is there, understood. But the relative ease of finding these guys is something I never would have guessed possible. Our website is your starting place to begin a walk of your own, where ever you are.
WalkingTalkingmen.org 