Category: General Learning

Men.

This is for you.

June 24th and July 7th (optional). Online. 5:00 pm -7:00 pm (Mountain Time).

We’re gonna learn. We’re gonna circle. We’re gonna explore together.

Registration and information is here.

I know
that there are
many of us
that seek what is underneath.

The thing
under the thing
under the thing
the turns out to not be a thing.

I know that there are many of us that want some structure, some clarity, some direction
so that
we can be in relationship with what is necessarily unstructured, unclear, and requires wander.

It’s time to be wise.
This gathering is for thoughtful men wishing other thoughtful men.

I’m hosting the first part (June 24) of this with Megan Sheldon, a woman, who has devoted her life to ceremony. She has things to teach us. To help frame. To help hold.

And then, the second part (July 7) will be just men, following up together. Integrating. Honing our masculine wisdom.

Come play.
Come contribute.
Come hone.
Come delight.

Teaser video is here (from a previous conversation with Megan.

Men.

This is for you, for us as thoughtful men.
For the heart.

I quite love hosting these B & B gatherings. Becoming and belonging get to the places that so many humans yearn for.

Yesterday it was Flow Game. Four of us. With connection first. And the bravery to name circumstances for which we wish insight and intuition. Then drawing Flow Game cards. Then journeying together with story and unhurriedness (thx Nadia).

I wrote follow-up email to those participating yesterday.

• what delicious learning and heart stroll.
• I loved our cards, circumstances, questions. Ioved the weave.
• Lots of “E’s — East and Earth”
• A bow to the journey that brings a simplicity to clarity.

Next Flow Games are June 24 and June 25. Many other B & B offerings for June. 

Come as inspired. I’ll meet you there. For the deliciousness.

I’m drawn to scale. The things and people beautiful and attractive that are close in. The things and people beautiful and attractive that are far away. I’m drawn to how the near invites the far and how the far invites the near. I’m drawn to the aliveness that lives in all of that. There is some important principle and practice for living in all of that — welcome the near to meet the far and vice versa. Wander a bit. Notice. Be lived.

Over the last week, Dana and I took many pictures in our week of wander in the Pacific Northwest. Port Townsend. Anacortes. Friday Harbor. Bellingham. Things near and things far. Life near and life far.

I love this principle and practice when in travel and vacation mode. I love this principle when in facilitation mode, running programs. When, as many of us do, we invite humans to explore humanness. I love watching myself and others come alive, welcoming life to claim us once again, pointing out the near and the far.

This morning I asked AI to offer a poem about such things (actually, it asked me if I wanted it). Here’s what I got:

THE
CENTER
HOLDS

What if today
were not about solving,
but about staying close to
what matters most?

What if presence —
gently offered, quietly held —
were enough to move something
essential in you,
in me,
in others?

Let the swirl come.
Let the center hold.

So, here’s to that kind of aliveness. And pause. And vision. And permission to scale small or big, in the beauty and the attraction.

Good morning (or whatever time of day you are reading this). Now good afternoon for me. Dana had a flat tire which is now mostly sorted.

I returned last night from travel with Dana and some family.

For me that means a mix of lingering in what was very spacious timing, balancing a few stones, and now moving through a rather full inbox of email, and rather lengthy balance of todos.

I’ve always been a person that has wished to integrate these lives. Carry the vacation forward. Love the work for it’s beauty and kindness.

Well, somewhere in that David Whyte writes in one of his posts — “Courage is the measure of our heartfelt participation with life.”

There it is. A centering thought to hold it all. Participation with life. The holiday. The back to work. The unplanned. The thick schedule, remembering this’s and that’s to give attention too.

Participating. It’s really one of the primary invitations.