Men Talk December 2011 / January 2012

Who am I really? How have I been? Where am I going? How will I get there?

On a cold and snowy February evening a determined man was looking for answers to these same questions we have asked year after year at The Twin Cities Men's Center. It was 1973 and Hank Bruns had heard about a group of men informally offering support to each other just by being together and doing some men talk. These men had recently emerged from the growing men's awareness movement of the early 1970's. Hank found them lacking any furniture in their rented church space and sitting in a circle on the floor. Nervous about what these guys might think of him and feeling awkward with his own confusions, he turned away at the door, but after reconsidering returned to face the music.

Hank has often derived a personal and private comfort from all kinds of music during those occasional all night work shifts at his radio station back in Illinois in the 1950's, and later in Minnesota on his early morning drives into work at the State Highway Department or on his regular evenings out at Orchestra Hall. In addition, his studies in electrical engineering, bio-energetic therapy, and spiritual healing have led him to pursue inner balance and harmony with others in the midst of life's challenges.