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What happens when a man who has spent 75 years "creeping south" realizes his greatest journey is the inward descent from anger into the well of grief?
In this ninth episode of Follow Me to the M-R-O-P!, host Brian Mueller sits down with Bill Prindle for a deeply honest conversation about his 2024 initiation at Shrine Mont. Bill, a poet and hospice volunteer, shares how a simple "GPS snafu" revealed a reservoir of anger that led him to finally seek the rites at age 74 . He reflects on the "gentle death" of a beech tree shedding its leaves and how that image helped him unlock ancestor grief and a new way of being among men .
Bill recounts the power of Jungian archetypes, his experience as a hospice volunteer, and the "Jeffersonian inclusivity" of Illuman that w ...