Dear Men, This is addressed to all the men on my mailing list. Some of you are familiar with the work I do with men and women and couples around the themes of intimacy, sex, and marriage. Some of you, not so much. A few of you were part of
Apprenticeship to Love, April 7, 2024 * Today’s questions: What are your goals? What is your purpose? And, —and this is so important— are you ready to sacrifice these for what is most important in your life? * Today's suggested practice: Day 7 of this month's practice,
Apprenticeship to Love, April 1, 2024 * Today’s questions: It's April Fools' Day: How & where & when do you feel foolish, knowing something in your heart, but your mind —and your friends, your family, the culture— telling you this is madness, foolishness? * Today's suggested
Apprenticeship to Love, March 31, 2024 * Today’s questions: If you are a husband or if you are a wife to a husband, who blessed this husbandry? Who led the way into and through a ritual of becoming worthy of this trial and its treasures? * Today's suggested practice:
Apprenticeship to Love, March 29, 2024 * Today’s questions: What threshold invites you to obliterate yourself, and are you willing (you can never be ready for this; it really is too much) to step into that dark unknown? * Today's suggested practice: Day 29 of this month's
Apprenticeship to Love, March 28, 2024 * Today’s questions: Have you slowed enough to feel what’s true for you? Do you know how quietly you will have to walk, to know? * Today's suggested practice: Day 23 of this month's practice, to pause and feel the
Apprenticeship to Love: Towards Authentic Relationship, March 23, 2024 * Today’s questions: What does it mean, to your body-mind, to "follow the follow?" Have you slowed enough, become patient enough, to feel into that energy or that person who would follow you, if you allowed yourself to
Apprenticeship to Love, March 20, 2024 * Today’s questions: Who do you claim to see you? To hold and know and love you, just as you are? And whom do you claim to see, to hear, hold, and to love just as they are? * Today's suggested practice: Day
Apprenticeship to Love: Towards Authentic Relationship, March 14, 2024 * Today’s questions: What threshold invites you? What frightening step forward that seems to welcome your annihilation? And what ritual can you prepare, to offer yourself as the gift you are to this moment of diminishing? * Today's suggested practice:
Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, March 13, 2024 * Today’s questions: What habits close you to life? What rituals open you to life? How important is it, to be alive, to feel the joy —and the terror!— of life coursing through you? * Today's
Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, March 9, 2024 * Today’s question: Where in your body does the will to perservere, to push through and against your fear, where does this power lie? * Today's suggested practice: Day 9 of this month's practice,
Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, March 1, 2024 * Today’s questions: What happens when the conversation goes silent? What feelings come up? Are you afraid? Do you feel rejected? Angry? Curious? Grateful? * Today's suggested practice: Day 1 of this month's practice,