“How does a boy become a man?” Out of the blue, that question was put to my middle-aged son by his grandson, my 12-year-old great grandson. Although a straight-forward question, it is one that I had not ever before been asked to ponder, or reply to with mere words. Given the perplexing, divisive, socially confusing era we now face, with pronoun fixations, gender pre-occupations in grade school and other self-indulgent distractions from the more profound challenges of the modern age, the question and the answer may not be as simple or orthodox as when Rudyard Kipling wrote his famous poem “If…”…
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