The Crane Dance: Taking Flight in Midlife

Like many men today Bill Finger experienced the perfect storm of job restructuring shifting gender roles and a pink slip. With young children little money and a fuzzy career vision he hit an emotional bottom. Only then did he come to grips with long buried grief and guilt as a white Mississippian and Conscientious Objector as well as a family history of depression. He came to realize how his responses to major life transitions had hobbled him in dealing with fatherhood breadwinning and vocation. Drawing on the energies of the mens movement the power of the expressive arts and the quiet force of meditation - along with antidepressants and therapy - he discovered a new vitality for the second half of life.