Men Walking, May 7 The next Men Walking group happens at 9:30am, May 7 in the Comox Valley. If you're on Vancouver Island and want to participate please register for the "Men Walking" event here: menswork.ca If you're not on the Island but would like support
CHAPTER 123: YOUR PRACTICE, YOUR ATTENTION, YOUR HOLINESS (Part III) Apprenticeship to Love, May 3, 2024 * Today’s questions: And again, What happens when you slow down, almost to the point of being still? What changes? What doesn't change? Now, slow yourself a little more. Notice what begins to open, to move, within and without. Are you willing
CHAPTER 123: YOUR PRACTICE, YOUR ATTENTION, YOUR HOLINESS (Part II) Apprenticeship to Love, April 25, 2024 * Today’s questions: And again, What happens when you slow down, almost to the point of being still? What changes? What doesn't change? Now, slow yourself a little more. Notice what begins to open, to move, within and without. Are you willing
CHAPTER 123: YOUR PRACTICE, YOUR ATTENTION, YOUR HOLINESS (Part I) Apprenticeship to Love, April 23, 2024 * Today’s questions: What happens when you slow down, almost to the point of being still? What changes? What doesn't change? Now, slow yourself a little more. Notice what begins to open, to move, within and without. Are you willing to allow
CHAPTER 121: A BURNT OFFERING Apprenticeship to Love, April 21, 2024 * This is your invitation to the first Apprenticeship to Love "Community Call". FREE to all of you on the "1000 Early Readers" list. Please register here * Today’s questions: How are you offering yourself to what life and love bring
CHAPTER 115: WHEN SHE HOLDS ME Apprenticeship to Love, April 15, 2024 * Today’s questions: Consider: everything you are doing to do things right by another is also be being done by them, for you. What happens now? Are you BIG enough to hold that, too? * Today's suggested practice: Day 15 of this month&
CHAPTER 114: SHE REVEALS HERSELF THROUGH SACRIFICE Apprenticeship to Love, April 14, 2024 * Today’s questions: What are you protecting, holding tight, afraid to lose? What has it cost you, this thing, to have in your hands or heart? And what is costing you, to hold onto it? * Today's suggested practice: Day 14 of this
MASTERS OF TIME & SPACE (& INTIMACY) 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
CHAPTER 99: REMEMBERING CROOKED WAYS 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,
CHAPTER 92: FOOLISH KNOWING 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
CHAPTER 91: HUSBANDRY REQUIRES BLOODYING 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:
CHAPTER 89: MARRIAGE. BLOOD. SACRIFICE 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
CHAPTER 88: WALKING & LISTENING TO THE SILENCE 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
CHAPTER 83: MARRIAGE + GRACE (& TANGO) 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 be
CHAPTER 80: RETURN/AFTERCARE 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
CHAPTER 74: DIMINISHMENT, SEX, & RITUAL 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:
CHAPTER 73: RITUAL AND MARRIAGE 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
CHAPTER 69: COURAGE 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,
CHAPTER 61: PAUSE 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,
WRITINGS & RITES & PASSAGES Chapter 47 of this Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, February 16, 2024 * Today's playlist: Silence... * Today’s questions: What small (or large) rituals do you have, that help you break open and pay attention to this moment, your opening or closing in this
PATIENT PREPARATION (AKA "SLOW DOWN") Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, Chapter 44, February 13, 2024 * Today's playlist: Spiegel Im Spiegel (Arvo Pärt) https://apple.co/42E6XM8 * Today’s questions: How are you resisting love? How are you not holding yourself close, tenderly, with deepest devotion? * Today's
APPROACHING VALENTINE’S DAY (A DIFFICULT SEASON) Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, Chapter 42, February 11, 2024 * Today's playlist: The memory of the roar of the trees, the river, the traffic... * Today’s questions: Can you feel yourself being pulled in strange and uncomfortable ways? Confused? Struggling to feel the
I TRUST THIS FIRE Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, Chapter 40, February 9, 2024 * Today's playlist: Bach Transcriptions (Mao Fujita) https://classical.music.apple.com/ca/album/1712466829?l=en-CA * Today’s questions: Do you have a practice, that you may feel the burn, that you may
IT'S NOT EASY, TO DANCE THIS MOMENT Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, February 5, 2024 * Today's playlist: Listening to the noise of household appliances, robotically heating my home, cleaning my air, and other things that I take for granted... * Today’s questions: Who do you choose? And why do you
IMBOLC. CONFUSION. HUMILITY Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, February 1, 2024 * Today's playlist: The throbbing hum of the machine that pumps concrete into the forms across the alley... * Today’s questions: It's the transitional season, Imbolc. Can you feel the sometimes-confusion of winter-becoming-spring in
