A macho man? A real man can cry and fly and never stand by, when someone else is suffereing. The true measure of any of us, is graded in compassion
I wrote this last month when pondering the fact that one of the guys I play golf with bought this teen with a welfare mom, a set of clubs as he had a lot of talent and no way could afford any on his own.

The measure of a man        It's not brute strength or intelligence    How you look, or what you wear    That determines the measure of a man    It's simply: Does He Care ?         Not for himself or for for his spouse    His kids or familily, too           but ,rather for those who are without    For them what will he do?         It's easy to get lost in our selves,     to look the other way    When someone reaches out for help    To stop the hurt and pain         Sometime's it's not but money    To help them through hard times    But it seems, a whole lot more often    Some love, they're tryin to find           A  sypathetic ear    some time with someone spent     means more than just mere money     When a helping hand we,ve lent         It's hard to look past ourselves    The mission fields' so wide    To overecome our selfishness    Our ego and our pride         But when our lives are over    The countin's all been done     A crown you'll wear for those you helped    For each and every one         No it's not brute strenght or intelligence    That makes or BREAKS a man    But just to do for others    Whatever that he can              Art Proctor     3-26-06